
Lexicon of Affinities
by Ida Vitale
Title:
Lexicon of Affinities
Author:
Ida Vitale
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
233 pages, Not illustrated
Publisher:
Charco Press
ISBN-13:
9781913867591
EAN:
9781913867591
Publication Date:
21/01/2025
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
360
Dimensions (mm):
197 x 131 x 20
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
A prowl through words reveals the unstable character of the cosmos.With entries as varied as elbow, Ophelia, progress, the painter Giorgio Morandi, chess, Eulalia (a friend of the authors aunt), and unicorn, Ida Vitale constructs a dictionary of her long and passionately engaged artistic life. Taking the reader by the arm, she invites us to become her confidant, sharing her remarkable 20th century as a member of a storied generation of Latin American writers, of whom she is the last remaining alive. Its a compendium of friendship, travel, reading, and the endless opportunities she found for ''the joyful possibility of creation.'' Like every dictionary, Lexicon of Affinities seeks to impose order on chaos, even if in its exuberant, whimsical profusion it lays bare the unstable character of the cosmos.











