Vermeer in Bosnia: Selected Writings
A Art, Nonfiction, Essays book. Bought this years ago because Vermeer and Bosnia were in the title. It's actually...
There are writers who specialize in the strange and others whose genius is to find the strangeness in the familiar, the unexpected meanings in stories we thought we knew. Of that second category, Lawrence Weschler is the master. Witness the pieces in this splendidly disorienting collection, spanning twenty years of his career and the full range of his concerns–which is to say, practically everything.Only Lawrence Weschler could reveal the connections between the twentieth century’s Yugoslav wars and the equally violent Holland in which Vermeer created his luminously serene paintings. In his profile of Roman Polanski, Weschler traces the filmmaker’s symbolic negotiations with his nightmarish childhood during the Holocaust. Here, too, are meditations on...
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- Pages: 432 pages
- ISBN: 9780679777403 / 679777407
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Bought this years ago because Vermeer and Bosnia were in the title. It's actually a collection of new yorker and mcsweenys stories. The ones I liked least were about the Balkans (which is really surprising). I most enjoyed his portraits of artists: Hockney and Polanski among others. i want to be lawrence weschler when i grow up. Weschler never ceases to amaze me in his ability to make such a wide array of topics accessible without dumbing anything down. He tackles such heavy topics- from war crimes tribunals to the redemptive power of art, and yet his writing is consistently lucid, heartfelt, and witty. He clearly has a scholar's knowledge of each of his subjects,...
