Melodrama,biography,cold war thriller,drug memoir,essay in fragments,mystery - Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman's long awaited first original book,a kaleidoscopic study of the late West German film maker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982). Written quickly under a self-imposed deadline in the spirit of Fassbinder himself,who would often get films made in a matter of weeks or months,Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors presents the filmmaker as a pivotal figure in the late 1970s moment between late modernism and the advent of postmodernism and the digital revolution. Compelling,beautifully written and genuinely moving,echoing the fragmentary and reflective works of writers like Barthes and Cioran,this is a story that has everything: sex,drugs,art,the city,cinema and revolution.
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo EditionsISBN: 9781804270424Dimensions: 197 x 125 mm
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'Ian Penman is an ideal critic,one who invites you in,takes your coat,and hands you a drink as he sidles up to his topic. He has a modest mien,a feathery way with a sentence,a century's worth of adroit cultural connections at the ready,and a great well of genuine passion,which quickly raises the temperature.'- Lucy Sante,author of The Other Paris
'Ian Penman - critic,essayist,mystical hack and charmer of sentences like they're snakes - is the writer I have hardly gone a week without reading,reciting,summoning to mind. The writer without whom,etc.'- Brian Dillon,author of Affinities
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