Wooden eyes
nine reflections on distance
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Author
Contributions
- Ryle, Martin H - Contributor
- Soper, Kate - Contributor
Publication
2001 - Columbia University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
65,250 words, Guess
Page Count
261 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100231119607
- ISBN-139780231119603
- Goodreads1120682
- LibraryThing1941353
- Library of Congress Control Number2001017407
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number46314482
- Better World Books9780231119603
- Open LibraryOL17019594M
Classifications
- LCCBD348 .G5613 2001
- LCCBD348.G5613 2001
- LCCBD348 .G56 1998
Description
""I am a Jew who was born and who grew up in a Catholic country; I never had a religious education; my Jewish identity is in large measure the result of persecution." This brief autobiographical statement is a key to understanding Carlo Ginzburg's interest in the topic of his latest book: distance. In nine linked essays, he addresses the question: "What is the exact distance that permits us to see things as they are?""--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
I. In 1992, the Russian critic Viktor Shklovsky, in a letter to Roman Jakobson, exclaimed cheerfully: "We know how life is made, and how Don Quixote and the car are made too."
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