商品簡介
An illustrated artist's memoir of the motivations, feelings, ideas, figures (including Samuel Beckett and Walter Benjamin), travels, and love affairs that have influenced his life.
The writer and artist Frédéric Pajak was ten when he began to “dream of a work that would mingle words and images...bits of adventure, collected memories, sentences, phantoms, forgotten heroes, trees, the stormy sea,” but it was not until he was in his forties that this dream took form as The Wind of Things. The utterly original book that he produced is a memoir born of reading and a meditation on the lives and ideas, the motivations, feelings, and fates of some of Pajak’s heroes: Samuel Beckett and the artist Bram van Velde, and, especially, Walter Benjamin, whose travels to Moscow, Naples, and Ibiza, whose experiences with hashish, whose faltering marriage and love affairs and critique of modern experience Pajak re-creates and reflects on in word and image. Pajak’s moody black-and-white drawings accompany the text throughout, though their bearing on it is often indirect and all the more absorbing for that. Between word and image, the reader is drawn into a mysterious space that is all Pajak’s as he seeks to evoke vanished histories and to resist a modern world more and more given over to a present without a past.
作者簡介
Frederic Pajak is a French-Swiss writer, editor, and illustrator who was born in Suresnes, France. He is the author of several books including the novel Le bon larron and L'Immense solitude, the book for which he is best known and the winner of the Prix Michel-Dentan in 2000.
Donald Nicholson-Smith was born in Manchester, England and is a longtime resident of New York City. Among his many translations from the French are works by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Henri Lefebvre, Raoul Vaneigem, Antonin Artaud, Jean Laplanche, Guillaume Apollinaire, Guy Debord, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Thierry Jonquet, and (with Alyson Waters) Yasmina Khadra. For NYRB Classics he has translated Manchette's Fatale and The Mad and the Bad, which won the 28th Annual Translation Prize of the French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation for fiction, as well as Jean-Paul Clebert's Paris Vagabond, and for the NYR Comics series, Nicole Claveloux's The Green Hand and Other Stories and Yvan Alagbe's Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures.
