Mirror Gazing

Warren Motte

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Dalkey Archive Press
12 August 2014

Cultural studies

"Mirror Gazing is a book about reading and looking, about what people seek when they read, and about what stares back at them from the printed page. It is an archival project, based on a wealth of material collected daily by celebrated critic Warren F. Motte over thirty-five years and squirreled away for some eventual winter. It is also a love letter, a confession, a tale of deep obsession, and a cry for help addressed to anyone who takes literature seriously.

""At heart, this is not just a book about mirror scenes, interesting as they are- and they are interesting. It's also a look at passion, at collection, at personal taxonomies and the game of creating order from disorder (do we ever win that game?). It's about how we read and why we read. And it's about the Delphic maxim, ""Know thyself."" Motte explores how characters look for (or suddenly catch) themselves in mirrors, as well as how (or whether) the act of writing is a reflection, distorted or true, of writers themselves.""- Julie Larios, Numero Cinq

""I believe (and I'm choosing my words carefully) that this is the most extraordinary book about reading I have ever read""

Jacques Jouet

""Wonderfully luminous, entertaining, thought-provoking, and wide-ranging...an essential book""

Gerald Prince

""Motte has collected around ten thousand mirror scenes from roughly 1,500 books. This, in and of itself, is noteworthy, but the book is not simply a reprinting of quotes from various books. It is a deeply considered analysis of what it actually means to look into a mirror. For the serious reader, this book will serve as a trip through your reading past. I was reminded-somewhat nostalgically-of much of the literature that has defined the early part of my adult life. From Nabokov to Salinger to Rilke to Calvino, the book makes its way into just about every corner of American and European literature.""

Nancy Smith, YourImpossibleVoice"

By: Warren Motte
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 214mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 426g
ISBN: 9781628970142
ISBN 10: 1628970146
Pages: 270
Publication Date: 12 August 2014
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Warren Motte is Professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Colorado. His most recent books include Fables of the Novel: French Fiction since 1990 and Fiction Now: The French Novel in the Twenty-First Century.

Reviews for Mirror Gazing

I believe (and I'm choosing my words carefully) that this is the most extraordinary book about reading I have ever read. -- Jacques Jouet Once in a while you come across a book that just floors you. Warren Motte's Mirror Gazing is, for me, such a book. -- Sydney Levy Wonderfully luminous, entertaining, thought-provoking, and wide-ranging, this is an essential book. -- Gerald Prince

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