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21%OFFSharon Cameron - The Bond of the Furthest Apart: Essays on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Bresson, and Kafka - 9780226414065 - V9780226414065
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The Bond of the Furthest Apart: Essays on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Bresson, and Kafka

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Description for The Bond of the Furthest Apart: Essays on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Bresson, and Kafka Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 75 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
In French filmmaker Robert Bresson's cinematography, the linkage of fragmented, dissimilar images challenges our assumption that we know either what things are in themselves or the infinite ways in which they are entangled. The bond of Cameron's title refers to the astonishing connections found both within Bresson's films and across literary works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Kafka, whose visionary rethinkings of experience are akin to Bresson's in their resistance to all forms of abstraction and classification that segregate aspects of reality. Whether exploring Bresson's efforts to reassess the limits of human reason and will, Dostoevsky's subversions of ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226414065
SKU
V9780226414065
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About Sharon Cameron
Sharon Cameron is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emerita of English at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of many books, including, most recently, Impersonality: Seven Essays, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Reviews for The Bond of the Furthest Apart: Essays on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Bresson, and Kafka
Original to the point of uniqueness, this is a work of literary and film criticism, but its arguments and insights are fundamentally philosophical. Beneath the vast differences, both within the work of the artists Cameron is so closely studying and between the visions of each of the artists, is a kind of nonconformist unity, a resistance to whatever teaches us ... Read more

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