The Mountains of Paris : How Awe and Wonder Rewrote My Life /

"Living in Paris for a winter and a spring and waking each morning to a view of Notre Dame, David Oates is led to revise his life story from one of trudging and occasional woe into one punctuated by nourishing and sometimes unsettling brilliance. In The Mountains of Paris, he offers a technique...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Oates, David, 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Corvallis OR : Oregon State University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Oates, David, > 1950- > Travel > France > Paris.
Travel.
France > Paris.
Paris (France) > Descriptions et voyages.
Paris (France) > Description and travel.
Autobiographies.
Autobiography
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : the night walk (memnoir)
  • St. Eustache
  • At home (or not) in Paris
  • The flatness (memnoir)
  • Schubert : it is a question
  • Balthasar Denner, Bill Viola : the grace of humans
  • Schlock and awe (memnoir)
  • Mount St. Sublime
  • Bosch in the burning world
  • Voices (memnoir)
  • Schubert II : counting time
  • Beyond Goddard Canyon
  • St. Eustache II : the sound world
  • Schubert III : changing my mind
  • The mysterious barricades (memnoir)
  • Vermeer and Rembrandt
  • Beyond Goddard Canyon II : vasty love and the big comedown (memnoir)
  • Umpteenth Brumaire
  • Sehnsucht and the deep present (memnoir)
  • The pocket sublime
  • Twombly : do not say
  • Reading in Paris
  • Picasso : public and private
  • The enormous alphabet (memnoir)
  • St. Eustache III : solidarity and the sublime
  • Epilogue
  • getting out of the way.

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