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Seeing Further - Paperback

by Esther Kinsky
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Availability:In StockContributor:Esther Kinsky, Caroline Schmidt (Translator)Publish date:2024-11-12Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681378510ISBN-10:1681378515UPC:9781681378510Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Performing Arts, BiographicalBook Topic:Germany, Film, Television & RadioSize:8.40 x 5.70 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC65E9T3P4
In this autobiographical novel by a leading German author and translator, the narrator attempts to revive a run-down Hungarian movie theater--an unpromising endeavor that soon leads into a consideration of the building's history and an homage to the power of the cinema, imperiled as it may be in our time.

While travelling through the Great Alf?ld, the vast plain in southeastern Hungary, the narrator of Seeing Further stops in an all but vacant town near the Romanian border. There she happens upon a dilapidated movie theater. Once the heart of the village, it has been boarded up for years. Entranced, she soon finds herself embarking on the colossal task of renovating it in order to preserve the cinematic experience.

Seeing Further illuminates the cinema's former role as a communal space for collective imagining. For Esther Kinsky and her narrator, it remains a place of wonder, a dark room that unfurls a vastness not beholden to the ordinary rules of time and space. Seeing Further is an homage to cinema in words and pictures.
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681378510ISBN-10:1681378515UPC:9781681378510Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Performing Arts, BiographicalBook Topic:Germany, Film, Television & RadioSize:8.40 x 5.70 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC65E9T3P4
Esther Kinsky is the author of six volumes of poetry and five novels. She has translated many notable English and Polish authors into German. Her novels River and Grove won numerous literary prizes in Germany. Her novel Rombo, published by New York Review Books in 2023, was awarded the W.-G.-Sebald-Literaturpreis in 2020 after its initial publication in Germany. In 2022, Kinsky was awarded the prestigious Kleist Prize for her oeuvre.

Caroline Schmidt has translated poetry by Friederike Mayr?cker, as well as art historical essays, museum catalogues, and exhibition texts for Albertina in Vienna and Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, among others. Her translation of Esther Kinsky's Rombo was published by New York Review Books in 2023.
Publisher: New York Review of Books

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Esther Kinsky, Caroline Schmidt (Translator)

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Esther Kinsky

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