Total Eclipse

Total Eclipse

Softcover
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What can we know, and what remains beyond our reach?In 1979, Annie Dillard witnessed the solar eclipse in Yakima, Washington. In Total Eclipse, this celestial event becomes a metaphysical reckoning. With lyrical precision and eerie clarity, Dillard evokes the strangeness of the shifting sky and the psychic dislocation that descends with the shadow.The quiet yet epic unravelling of the familiar becomes revelation: a rupture in time, a confrontation with mortality and a brush with the sublime. Juxtaposing the cosmic and the mundane, Total Eclipse meditates on the limits of perception and language, entering the surreal intensity of the phenomenon to emerge with the brief, blazing clarity offered by darkness.

Book Information

Main Genre
Biographies
Sub Genre
Literary Essays
Format
Softcover
Pages
32
Price
10.50 €

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Thanks to Hirsch for assigning this as reading. Dillard personifies our daily rituals and explores what they mean to us in wonderful passages. I definitely needed to break my creative nonfiction hiatus with this and it did not disappoint. I immediately associated this with the songs bathwater and little rituals by Luna Shadows.

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