Calendar (eBook)

Vanessa Berry (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
400 Seiten
Schwartz Books Pty. Ltd. (Verlag)
978-1-74382-447-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A collection of essays in the form of a daybook, written in real-time over a year. Calendar is about tuning in to the unexpected, playful and solemn lives of the objects around us.

Calendar is an essay collection in the form of a daybook, written in real-time over a year. The book takes inspiration from writers who use experiments and constraints, such as Georges Perec/Oulipo and Bernadette Mayer, as well as autobiographical writers who use inventive structures, such as Christina Sharpe in Ordinary Notes, and Sheila Heti in Alphabetical Diaries.

Calendar is based on the French Republican calendar of the late 18th century, in which every day was dedicated to an object, and applies this concept to objects of contemporary life.

For a year Berry paid attention to her encounters with objects over the course of the day, and every night wrote an essay based on one object, and drew an illustration of it. Combining the narrative of a year and stories of the 365 objects themselves, Calendar is about tuning in to the unexpected, playful and solemn lives of the objects around us.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.9.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Schlagworte: artistic process • attention to detail • Autobiographical writing • contemporary life • Creative Nonfiction • daily reflections • everyday objects • experimental essays • French Republican Calendar • illustrated essays • meditative prose • object narratives • observational writing • Oulipo influence • personal reflections • Slow Living • storytelling through objects • unique structures • Vanessa Berry • year-long project
• ISBN-10: 1-74382-447-5 / 1743824475
• ISBN-13: 978-1-74382-447-4 / 9781743824474