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The Book of Emotions
Contributor(s): Almino, Joao (Author), Jackson, Elizabeth (Translator)
ISBN: 1564786811     ISBN-13: 9781564786814
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
OUR PRICE:   $17.96  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2011028548
Series: Brazilian Literature
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.6" W x 8.1" (0.90 lbs) 230 pages
 
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Isolating these moments in his memory and attempting to analyze them much like a lens, he envisions "a haiku stripped of rhetoric that captures only what is in front of the camera." Yet, deprived of his sight, the photographer now must reconstruct his experiences as a series of affective snapshots, a diary of his emotions as they were frozen on this or that day. The result, then, is not the description of a remembered image, but of the emotional memory the image evokes. Joao Almino here gives us a trenchant portrait of an artist trying to close the gap between objective vision and sentimental memory, leafing through a catalog of his accomplishments and failures in a violent, artificial, universal city, and trying to reassemble the puzzle that was his life.