Gallery of Clouds,Used

Gallery of Clouds,Used

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Brand: New York Review of Books
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A personal and critical work that celebrates the pleasure of books and reading.Largely unknown to readers today, Sir Philip Sidneys sixteenthcentury pastoral romance Arcadia was long considered one of the finest works of prose fiction in the English language. Shakespeare borrowed an episode from it for King Lear; Virginia Woolf saw it as some luminous globe wherein all the seeds of English fiction lie latent. In Gallery of Clouds, the Renaissance scholar Rachel Eisendrath has written an extraordinary homage to Arcadia in the form of a booklength essay divided into passing clouds: The clouds in my Arcadia, the one I found and the one I made, hold light and color. They take on the forms of other things: a cat, the sea, my grandmother, the gesture of a teacher I loved, a friend, a girlfriend, a ship at sail, my mother. These clouds stay still only as long as I look at them, and then they change.Gallery of Clouds opens in New York City with a dream, or a vision, of meeting Virginia Woolf in the afterlife. Eisendrath holds out her manuscriptan infinite moment passesand Woolf takes it and begins to read. From here, in this act of magical reading, the book scrolls out in a series of reflective pieces linked through metaphors and ideas. Golden threadlines tie each part to the next: a rupture of time in a Pisanello painting; Montaignes practice of revision in his essays; a segue through Vivian Gordon Harsh, the first African American head librarian in the Chicago public library system; a brief history of prose style; a meditation on the active versus the contemplative life; the story of Sarapion, a fifthcentury monk; the persistence of the pastoral; imagemaking and thought; reading Willa Cather to her grandmother in her Chicago apartment; the deviations of Walter Benjamins scholarly romance, The Arcades Project. Eisendraths wondrously woven hybrid work extols the materiality of reading, its pleasures and delights, with wild leaps and abounding grace.

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