Visible: Text + Image
Paperback/Fiction 180 pages English Sep 27, 2022
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Brimming with enigmatic photographs, future memes, and mud drawings, Visible showcases six genre-defying works from around the world that raise questions about the relationship between how we see, how we read, and how we write in "the age of the calligram." In a rewrite of René Magritte's "Les mots et les images," Verónica Gerber Bicecci (translated by Christina MacSweeney) considers "images that think" and the internet. Marie NDiaye's "Step of a Feral Cat," translated by Victoria Baena, follows an academic, inspired by a portrait of an entertainer, as she walks the slippery space between literary ambition and exploitation. Monika Sznajderman (translated by Scotia Gilroy) assembles a fractured family history through photographs of a time she can never possibly know: "the pre-Holocaust world." Focusing on those whose stories have yet to be told--the black Cuban singer Maria Martinez, a Polish family murdered in World War II, workers at a noodle shop in Busan, and the tallest man in recorded history--Visible asks us to interrogate the thin traces of shifting meaning we find in and between words and images, and how we can change that meaning for the future.
- Author:
- Marie Ndiaye, Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Sangwoo Yi, Rodrigo Flores Sánchez, Monika Sznajderman, Monchoachi
- Publisher:
- Two Lines Press
- Publication Date:
- Sep 27, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 180 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Fiction
- ISBN-10:
- 1949641376
- ISBN-13:
- 9781949641370