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The Traces An Essay

by [Small Staid, Mairead]

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The Traces is a ranging inquiry into the seductions of memory and travel, the fragile paradox of desire, and the art of making meaning from a life.


The Traces is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a reading of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.


Poised between plummeting depressions, the author considers the intellectual merits of joy and the redeeming promise offered by the beauty, both natural and manmade, that surrounds her. Traveling from Florence to Rome to Venice, drawing on the fields of physics, history, architecture, and cartography, and spurred by thinkers from Aristotle and Montaigne to Cesare Pavese and Anne Carson, The Traces is an ecstatic, insightful, and original debut.

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  • A Strange Object Brand
  • Nov 1, 2022 Pub Date:
  • 9781646052004 ISBN-13:
  • 1646052005 ISBN-10:
  • 252.0 pages Paperback
  • English Language
  • 8.25 in * 0.75 in * 5.5 in Dimensions:
  • 2 lb Weight: