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by Eliot Weinberger
language: english
Publisher: New Directions, February of 2014 ‧
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Internationally acclaimed as one of the most innovative writers today, Eliot Weinberger has taken the essay into unexplored territories on the borders of poetry and narrative where the only rule, according to the author, is that all the information must be verifiable.

With An Elemental Thing, Weinberger turns from his celebrated political chronicles to the timelessness of the subjects of his literary essays. With the wisdom of a literary archaeologist-astronomer-anthropologist-zookeeper, he leads us through histories, fables, and meditations about the ten thousand things in the universe: the wind and the rhinoceros, Catholic saints and people named Chang, the Mandaeans on the Iran-Iraq border and the Kaluli in the mountains of New Guinea. Among the thirty-five essays included are a poetic biography of the prophet Muhammad, which was praised by the London Times for its "great beauty and grace," and "The Stars," a reverie on what's up there that has already been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, and Maori.

An Elemental Thing

by Eliot Weinberger

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ISBN: 9780811223706
Publisher: New Directions
Release Date: February of 2014
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Categories: eBooks in English > Fiction > Essays
EAN: 9780811223706
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Eliot Weinberger

Eliot Weinberger (n. 1949) nasceu em Nova Iorque, onde ainda vive. Tradutor e editor, é conhecido sobretudo pela sua obra ensaística, dificilmente classificável, e muito alimentada pela História, e as histórias, das culturas asiática e hispano-americana. Tradutor da poesia de Bei Dao e editor da antologia de poesia chinesa clássica da New Directions, conta entre as suas traduções de poesia a obra de Octavio Paz e, na não-ficção, de Jorge Luis Borges. Os seus ensaios, traduzidos para cerca de trinta línguas, são presença assídua no New York Review of Books e no London Review of Books. Em Portugal, encontra-se publicado «Uma Coisa Elementar» (Bazarov, 2020), primeira parte de um ensaio em série de que «Os Espíritos das Aves» constitui a sequência.

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