EAN: 9780804171632

WHAT WE SEE WHEN WE READ - PETER MENDELSUND KAR...

A San Francisco Chronicle and Kirkus Best Book of the Year  A gorgeously unique  fully
illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading-how we visualize images from reading
works of literature  from one of our very best book jacket designers  himself a passionate
reader.   What do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did Melville
ever really tell us what  exactly  Ishmael looked like? The collection of fragmented images on
a page-a graceful ear there  a stray curl  a hat positioned just so-and other clues and
signifiers helps us to create an image of a character. But in fact our sense that we know a
character intimately has little to do with our ability to concretely picture our beloved-or
reviled-literary figures. In this remarkable work of nonfiction  Knopf's Associate Art Director
Peter Mendelsund combines his profession  as an award-winning designer  his first career  as a
classically trained pianist  and his first love  literature-he considers himself first and
foremost as a reader-into what is sure to be one of the most provocative and unusual
investigations into how we understand the act of reading.

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