Bluets
Editorial RANDOM HOUSE UK
España peninsular
- Editorial RANDOM HOUSE UK
- ISBN13 9781784706029
- ISBN10 1784706027
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 112
- Año de Edición 2020
- Idioma Inglés
- Encuadernación Paperback
Materias
Música ContemporáneaBluets
Editorial RANDOM HOUSE UK
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia Laing
Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of `pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue, she ends up facing down both the painful end of an affair and the grievous injury of a dear friend. The combination produces a raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief.
Much like Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse, Bluets has passed between lovers in the ecstasy of new love, and been pressed into the hands of the heartbroken. Visceral, learned, and acutely lucid, Bluets is a slim feat of literary innovation and grace, never before published in the UK.