Ongoingness : the End of a Diary EPUB
by Sarah Manguso
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In Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay.
In it, she confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. ‘I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened,’ she explains.
But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important.
Maintaining that diary, now eight hundred thousand words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice. Then Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two Copernican events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time. Ongoingness is a spare, meditative work that stands in stark contrast to the volubility of the diary – it is a haunting account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity in the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us.
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- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:Pan Macmillan
- Publication Date:09/08/2018
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- ISBN:9781509883301
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:Pan Macmillan
- Publication Date:09/08/2018
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- ISBN:9781509883301