Any Person is the Only Self
Elisa Gabbert
Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory.
Who are we when we read? When we journal? Are we more ourselves alone or with friends? Right now or in memory? How does time transform us and the art we love?
In sixteen dazzling, expansive essays, the acclaimed essayist and poet Elisa Gabbert explores a life lived alongside books of all kinds: dog-eared and destroyed, cherished and discarded, classic and clichėd, familiar and profoundly new. She turns her witty, searching mind to the writers she admires, from Plath to Proust, and the themes that bind them―chance, freedom, envy, ambition, nostalgia, and happiness. She takes us to the strange edges of art and culture, from hair metal to surf movies to party fiction. Any Person Is the Only Self is a love letter to literature and to life, inviting us to think alongside one of our most thrilling and versatile critics.
Duration - 7h 34m.
Author - Elisa Gabbert.
Narrator - Elisa Gabbert.
Published Date - Thursday, 11 January 2024.
Copyright - © 2024 Elisa Gabbert ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory. Who are we when we read? When we journal? Are we more ourselves alone or with friends? Right now or in memory? How does time transform us and the art we love? In sixteen dazzling, expansive essays, the acclaimed essayist and poet Elisa Gabbert explores a life lived alongside books of all kinds: dog-eared and destroyed, cherished and discarded, classic and clichėd, familiar and profoundly new. She turns her witty, searching mind to the writers she admires, from Plath to Proust, and the themes that bind them―chance, freedom, envy, ambition, nostalgia, and happiness. She takes us to the strange edges of art and culture, from hair metal to surf movies to party fiction. Any Person Is the Only Self is a love letter to literature and to life, inviting us to think alongside one of our most thrilling and versatile critics. Duration - 7h 34m. Author - Elisa Gabbert. Narrator - Elisa Gabbert. Published Date - Thursday, 11 January 2024. Copyright - © 2024 Elisa Gabbert ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duración:00:00:13
About the Author
Duración:00:00:31
Quote
Duración:00:00:20
On Recently Returned Books
Duración:00:19:23
The Stupid Classics Book Club
Duración:00:21:29
Weird Time in Frankenstein
Duración:00:16:58
Party Lit
Duración:00:17:50
Proust and the Joy of Suffering
Duración:00:20:22
On Jealousy
Duración:00:13:17
The Intolerable, I Guess
Duración:00:28:44
Against Completism
Duración:00:19:55
Second Selves
Duración:00:54:24
A Complicating Energy
Duración:00:32:35
Infinite Abundance on a Narrow Ledge
Duración:00:45:52
Insane Places
Duración:00:18:25
The Uncanny Child
Duración:00:20:15
Somethingness (or, Why Write?)
Duración:00:25:53
Nostalgia for a Less Innocent Time
Duración:00:47:51
Same River, Same Man
Duración:00:47:11
Acknowledgments
Duración:00:02:23
Closing Credits
Duración:00:00:39