| #4204751 in Books | Pushkin Press | 2008-01-01 | 2008-01-01 | Original language:French | PDF # 1 | 7.75 x.69 x4.95l, | File Name: 1901285731 | 192 pages |
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| SIMPLE LANGUAGE WITH LAYERS OF MEANING|By David Keymer|. Working Knowledge is a book of apercus -short, lyrical, often waxing philosophic about some common object or activity in our mundane world: the first cup of coffee on a Saturday morning, the feeling of a clean shirt, the pleasure of relieving oneself by the side of the road after having drunk too much wine.... Kral is a||"It is our blindness, existential blindness which makes the world around us so mysterious. In his discreet way, Petr Král lifts the veil." - Milan Kundera||"With Král’s virtuosic ability to get at the meat of a thing [...] we&r
Over the course of one hundred brief and evanescent texts, Král brings together, as his compatriot Milan Kundera writes in his introduction, "this strange and beautiful existential encyclopaedia of the everyday". Whether describing twilight, a toothpick, the ritual of shaving or the act of going upstairs, his gaze is ingenuous, humble, and amazed. Mute objects, fleeting gestures, changeless passions: Král forces us to look at them anew. Each limpid, gracef...
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