"The Distant and Close" is the second book by the Ukrainian philosopher and journalist Volodymyr Yermolenko. This book is about Rousseau, Casanova, Hoffmann, Flaubert, Derrida, Sontag, Barthes, Gary – and, at the same time, about intimacy, pleasure, invisibility, loss, slowness, and sensuality. This book is about people and their lives, their pain and joy – and, at the same time, about the senses that these people constellate from their experience. This book is about how to turn weakness into strength, and a flaw – into an advantage. About how the distant classics can suddenly become close – as friends, as relatives." Let us add: one reads it literally in one breath, it is written lightly and thoughtfully at the same time. And – one immediately feels the desire to (re-)read almost everything that is discussed here. It inspires for searching. In Ukrainian. Edition type: hard cover
Format: 130x200 mm Number of pages: 300 Publisher: Vydavnytstvo Staroho Leva, Lviv Contents:
- Peredmova
- Rousseau, abo Strakh blyz‘kosti
- Casanova, abo Chysta nasoloda
- Mesmer, abo Inshyy psykhoanaliz
- Hoffmann, abo Mahnetyzer
- Michelet, abo Vidrodzhennja
- Flaubert, abo Nevydyme
- Spielrein, abo Dytyna
- Gary, abo Khameleon
- Barthes, abo Vtrata
- Derrida, abo Povernennja
- Sontag, abo Chuttjevist‘
- Tournier, abo Povil‘nist‘
- Zamist‘ pisljamovy
Publisher: Staryi Lev Catalogue number: ISBN 9786176791201 Year: 2015
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