Pathemata, or The story of my mouth

Maggie Nelson


English | 30-05-2025 | 80 pages

9781911717454

Hardback


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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

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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

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EAN :9781911717454
Author : 
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)