Peter Mendelsund: What We See When We Read

What We See When We Read



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Author: Peter Mendelsund
Number of Pages: 448 pages
Published Date: 15 Aug 2014
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780804171632
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A "San Francisco Chronicle"and "Kirkus "Best Book of the Year A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader. What do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did Melville ever really tell us what, exactly, Ishmael looked like? The collection of fragmented images on a page a graceful ear there, a stray curl, a hat positioned just so and other clues and signifiers helps us to create an image of a character. But in fact our sense that we know a character intimately has little to do with our ability to concretely picture our beloved or reviled literary figures. In this remarkable work of nonfiction, Knopf's Associate Art Director Peter Mendelsund combines his profession, as an award-winning designer; his first career, as a classically trained pianist; and his first love, literature he considers himself first and foremost as a reader into what is sure to be one of the most provocative and unusual investigations into how we understand the act of reading."