Entertaining Ideas - (The Long View) - Kate Briggs

Kate Briggs

Ma Bibliotheque, ISBN 9781910055557,
Pb, 64 pgs, 10 x 17cm
Acqn. 33533
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£9.00
ENTERTAINING IDEAS began as a reading exercise: an effort to perform a 'good reading' of Elizabeth Jane Howard's The Long View(1956), and to think about what a 'good' short reading of a long novel might mean, what it might look like or read like. As a translator, Kate Briggs accepts that writing out a reading involves change, tampering with what seems perfect, and doing so from necessity, as a way of learning how exactly it works. She has changed Howard's book. Her exercise changed too, expanding unexpectedly into a set of reflections on writing backwards, living forwards, and entertaining ideas.