Eliot Weinberger
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Angels have soared through Western culture and consciousness from Biblical to contemporary times. But what do we really know about these celestial beings? Where do they come from, what are they made of, how do they communicate and perceive? The celebrated essayist Eliot Weinberger has mined and deconstructed, resurrected and distilled centuries of theology into an awe-inspiring exploration of the heavenly host. From a litany of angelic voices, Weinberger's...
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New Directions paperbook volume 1072
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"Eliot Weinberger has taken the essay into unexplored territories on the borders of poetry and narrative where the only rule, according to the author, is that all the information must be verifiable. With An Elemental Thing, Weinberger has created a unique, open-ended serial essay whose individual pieces - on an array of topics - converge in one ever-expanding ideogram, a chamber of echoes, or a hall of mirrors. Like Scheherazade, he leads us through...
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A collection of writings includes essays, literary and film criticism, biographical sketches, and lectures.
"It will come as a surprise to many readers that the greater part of Jorge Luis Borges's extraordinary writing was not in the genres of fiction or poetry, but in various forms of non-fiction prose. His thousands of pages of essays, reviews, prologues, lectures, and notes on politics and culture - though revered in Latin America and Europe as...