Bluets
Nelson, Maggie2017
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Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue, she ends up facing down both the painful end of an affair and the grievous injury of a dear friend. The combination produces a raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief. Much like Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse , Bluets has passed between lovers in the ecstasy of new love, and been pressed into the hands of the heartbroken.
Main title:
Bluets / Maggie Nelson.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Jonathan Cape, 2017.
Collation:
99 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes:
First published in the USA by Wave Books in 2009.Includes bibliographical references (page 98)
ISBN:
9781911214526
Dewey class:
818.609
Language:
English
BRN:
306175
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature | 818.609 NEL | Available |