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Spinoza's Overcoat
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Spinoza's Overcoat is ideal for readers interested in literary philosophy, translation, and the intertwined lives of poets and philosophers. It will also appeal to those who appreciate contemplative essays on language, culture, and mortality, especially readers with a passion for the arts and cultural history.
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Winner of the 2021 ACT Book of the Year
'It starts to rain as I step out of my hotel...' So begins Subhash Jaireth's striking collection of essays on the writers, and their writing, that have enriched his own life. The works of Franz Kafka, Marina Tsvetaeva, Mikhail Bulgakov, Paul Celan, Hiromi Ito, Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza and others ignite in him the urge to travel (both physically and in spirit), almost like a pilgrim, to the places where such writers were born, or died, or wrote.
In each essay, a new emotional plane is reached, revealing enticing connections. As a novelist, poet, essayist, and translator born into a multilingual environment, Jaireth truly understands the power of words across languages and their integral connections to the life of the body and the spirit. Drawing on years of research, translation, and travel, Spinoza's Overcoat and its illuminations of loss, mortality, and the reverie of writing will linger with readers.
'Eloquent and original, Jaireth's meditations on the lives-of-poets are full of astonishing details, tender connections and the magnificent melancholy of devotion to words. Encompassing matters of translation, love, mortality and homage, this is a rare model of what might be called "literary philosophy" and an utter joy and surprise for anyone interested in the reading and writing life...' - GAIL JONES, author of The Death of Noah Glass
Subhash Jaireth was born in India. Between 1969 and 1978, he spent nine years in Russia studying geology and Russian literature. In 1986, he migrated to Australia. He has published writing in Hindi, English, and Russian, and his novel After Love (Transit Lounge 2012) was published in Spain in 2018.
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ISBN: 9781925760460
Publisher: Transit Lounge Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 February 2020
Country: Australia
Imprint: Transit Lounge Publishing
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 288
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