Pathemata, or The story of my mouth
Maggie Nelson
English | 30-05-2025 | 80 pages
9781911717454
Hardback
19,95
Flap / cover copy
This is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others. As the narrator contends with chronic pain, and with a pandemic raging in the background, she sets out to examine the literal and symbolic role of the mouth in the life of a writer.
Merging dreams and dailies, Pathemata recounts the narrator’s tragicomic search to alleviate her suffering, a search that eventually becomes a reckoning with various forms of loss – the loss of intimacy, the loss of her father and the loss
Description
This is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others. As the narrator contends with chronic pain, and with a pandemic raging in the background, she sets out to examine the literal and symbolic role of the mouth in the life of a writer.
Merging dreams and dailies, Pathemata recounts the narrator’s tragicomic search to alleviate her suffering, a search that eventually becomes a reckoning with various forms of loss – the loss of intimacy, the loss of her father and the loss
Details
| EAN : | 9781911717454 |
| Editeur : | Ballantine Books |
| Publication date : | 30-05-2025 |
| Format : | Hardback |
| common.Language : | English |
| Height : | 204 mm |
| Width : | 137 mm |
| Thickness : | 15 mm |
| Weight : | 170 gr |
| Stock : | To order |
| Pages number : | 80 |
| Keywords : | nelson maggie;autobiografische literatuur;chronische pijn;coronacrisis;verlies (emotie) |