{"product_id":"9781681378510","title":"Seeing Further","description":"\u003ch1\u003e\u003cb\u003eNICK'S PICK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePure poetry. Language filled with longing and hope. Each paragraph is like an old photograph picked out of a box of memorabilia. Despite having faded over time it has managed to become more powerful than the moment it was taken. - NR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this Sebaldian autobiographical novel by a leading German author and translator, a narrator attempts to revive a run-down Hungarian movie theater—an unpromising endeavor that soon leads into a consideration of the building’s history and an homage to the power of the cinema, imperiled as it may be in our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile travelling through the Great Alfold, the vast plain in southeastern Hungary, the narrator of \u003ci\u003eSeeing Further\u003c\/i\u003e stops in an all but vacant town near the Romanian border. There she happens upon a dilapidated cinema. Once the heart of the village, it has been boarded up for years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEntranced by the \u003ci\u003emozi\u003c\/i\u003e, as cinema is known in Hungarian, she soon finds herself embarking on the colossal task of reviving it, compelled by what she calls “a dream in a glass coffin,” the preservation of the cinematic experience, “beautiful and undecayed like Snow White, in some people’s thoughts and memories, nourishing the fantasy of it reawaking.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat follows\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis a history of place, told by the town’s few remaining inhabitants and uncovered in physical traces of the past left behind in the grand old building. \u003ci\u003eSeeing Further\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the cinema’s former role as a communal space for collective imagining, a site rooted in ritual that has steadily disappeared. For Esther Kinsky, it nevertheless remains a place of wonder, a dark room that unfurls a vastness not beholden to the ordinary rules of time and space. \u003ci\u003eSeeing Further\u003c\/i\u003e is an homage to the cinema in words and pictures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback | 176 pages | 5.75\" x 8.50\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Esther Kinsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46185125970152,"sku":"9781681378510x","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0386\/5896\/5549\/files\/BNCImageAPI_be100814-73f1-4eec-8f3b-c894adb68eb0.jpg?v=1716316343","url":"https:\/\/typebooks.live\/products\/9781681378510","provider":"TYPE Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}