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Fireflies
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- Book Synopsis
- How do we even begin to narrate the history of the world? Where do we start, and where do we end? Fireflies is Sagasti's bold and original attempt to answer these questions. Roaming across time and geography, he lights on an eclectic array of characters and events that at first glance seem unrelated, and teases out their stories to reveal unexpected points of contact between them. Stanley Kubrick, Joseph Beuys, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Neil Armstrong, Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Beatles, Japanese poets, Brazilian priests, Russian cosmonauts and many more cross these pages, and Sagasti finds common threads that weave them together into a single narrative.The fireflies themselves perhaps provide the key to understanding this book. They become a metaphor for the resistance of certain luminous moments, certain twinkling fragments of history, to the passing of time. They remind us that events do not always simply disappear neatly into the darkness, but rather remain, floating in the air, lighting up the night sky indefinitely. Sagasti shows us that the present moment, like this novel, is a tapestry woven of a multiplicity of times.Using his unique, poetic and keenly observant style, Sagasti transforms the accidents of history into a single, lyrical constellation, and for the reader it is an extraordinary sight.
- About The Author
- Luis Sagasti , a writer, lecturer and art critic, was born in Bahìa Blanca, Argentina in 1963. He studied History at the Universidad Nacional del Sur, where he now teaches. From 1995 to 2003 he was a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bahìa Blanca, authoring numerous art catalogues for exhibitions. As well as Fireflies and A Musical Offering , published by Charco, he has several other novels: El Canon de Leipzig (1999), Los Mares de la luna (2006), Maelstrom (2015), Leyden Ltd. (2019)__ -__ a book composed entirely of footnotes - and most recently Lenguas vivas (2023).
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781999722746
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Charco Press, (15 January 2018)
- Number of Pages
- 89
- Weight
- 128 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 130 x 8 mm
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