Vermeer in Bosnia Selected Writings

Name: Vermeer in Bosnia Selected Writings
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ISBN: 9780679777403

ISBN-10: 0679777407

ISBN-13: 9780679777403

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Authors: Lawrence Weschler

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There are writers who specialize in the strange and others whose genius is to find the strangeness in the familiar, the unexpected meanings in stories we thought we knew. Of that second category, Lawrence Weschler is the master. Witness the pieces in this splendidly disorienting collection, spanning twenty years of his career and the full range of his concerns–which is to say, practically everything. Only Lawrence Weschler could reveal the connections between the twentieth century’s Yugoslav wars and the equally violent Holland in which Vermeer created his luminously serene paintings. In his profile of Roman Polanski, Weschler traces the filmmaker’s symbolic negotiations with his…

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List price: $16.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/12/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.16" wide x 7.95" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



In Lieu of a Preface: Why I Can't Write Fiction


A Balkan Triptych


Prelude: The Dikes of Holland


Vermeer in Bosnia


Henry V at Srebrenica


Aristotle in Belgrade


Coda: The Market on the Tuzla/Brcko Road


Three Polish Survivor Stories


The Brat's Tale: Roman Polanski


The Troll's Tale: Jerzy Urban


The Son's Tale: Art Spiegelman


Grandfathers and Daughters


My Grandfather's Last Tale


Sara's Eyes


A Season with the Borrowers


Why Is the Human on Earth?


A Fathers and Daughters Convergence: Occasioned by Some Portraits by Tina Barney


My Grandfather's Passover Cantata


Three L.A. Pieces


An L.A. High School Youth: Robert Irwin


The L.A. Quake


The Light of L.A.


Three Portraits of Artists


True to Life: David Hockney's Photocollages


The Past Affixed Also: The Kienholz Spokane Series


A Parkinsonian Passion: Ed Weinberger


A Final Vermeer Convergence


A Girl Intent: Wislawa Szymborska and the Lacemaker


Acknowledgments


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