Элиот Уайнбергер – лучшие книги

В эссе Уайнбергера сочетаются причудливая борхесовская "эстетика знания" и англосаксонская интеллектуальная дисциплина, эмпиризм и скептицизм. Являясь изощренными художественными произведениями, его тексты сохраняют и чисто познавательный интерес, знакомя нас с далеко не общеизвестными культурными, историческими и биологическими феноменами.

В сборнике представлены отобранные автором наиболее значимые и характерные эссе из трех его книг: "Works on Paper" (1986), "Outside Stories" (1992), "Karmic Traces" (2000). Эссе Уайнбергера публикуются на русском языке впервые.

Internationally acclaimed as one of the most innovative writers today, Eliot Weinberger has taken the essay into unexplored territories on the borders of poetry and narrative where the only rule, according to the author, is that all the information must be verifiable.

With An Elemental Thing, Weinberger turns from his celebrated political chronicles to the timelessness of the subjects of his literary essays. With the wisdom of a literary archaeologist-astronomer-anthropologist-zookeeper, he leads us through histories, fables, and meditations about the ten thousand things in the universe: the wind and the rhinoceros, Catholic saints and people named Chang, the Mandaeans on the Iran-Iraq border and the Kaluli in the mountains of New Guinea. Among the thirty-five essays included are a poetic biography of the prophet Muhammad, which was praised by the London Times for its "great beauty and grace," and "The Stars," a reverie on what's up there that has already been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, and Maori.

The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty—from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth’s loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, “Eliot Weinberger’s commentary on the successive translations of Wang Wei’s little poem illustrates, with succinct clarity, not only the evolution of the art of translation in the modern period but at the same time the changes in poetic sensibility.” This classic study of translation has been expanded to include still more ways of looking at Wang Wei.

While Mitch Epstein is widely acknowledged as one of the world's most distinguished art photographers, a complete survey of his work has never been published until now. Mitch Epstein: Work invites readers to trace the evolution of Epstein's

Essayist Eliot Weinberger sets his sights on the Bush team with brilliant, thought-provoking, funny consequences.

Written for publication in magazines abroad, translated into sixteen languages, and collected here for the first time, Eliot Weinberger's chronicles of the Bush era range from first-person journalism to political analysis to a kind of documentary prose poetry. The book begins with the inauguration of George W. Bush in January 200l—and an eerie prediction of the invasion of Iraq—and picks up on September 12, with an account of downtown Manhattan, where Weinberger lives, on the "day after." With wit and anger, and sometimes startling prescience, What Happened Here takes us through the first term of the "Bush junta": the deep history of the neoconservative "sleeper cell," the invention of the War on Terror, the real wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the often bizarre behavior of the Republican Party. For twenty-five years, Eliot Weinberger has been taking the essay form into unexplored territory. In What Happened Here, truth proves stranger than poetry.

A groundbreaking anthology of classical Chinese translations by giants of Modern American poetry. A rich compendium of translations, The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry is the first collection to look at

Eliot Weinberger ist nicht nur einer der origi­nellsten Essayisten, er ist auch einer der sch?rfsten politischen Kommentatoren der USA. In seinen Texten ?ber die Politik unter den Regierungen Bush und Trump l?sst er Fakten sprechen: Nachrichtendetails, Aus­sagen von Politikern, die den Wahnsinn, der in den USA zum Alltag geworden ist, in all seinen bizarren Ausw?chsen pr?sentieren. Nichts fehlt: der Irakkrieg, fromm homophobe und rassistische Republikaner, Konzentrations­lager f?r gefl?chtete Kinder, nicht zu vergessen Donald Trumps Empfehlungen zum Umgang mit einem Virus. Weinbergers Chroniken aus dem republikanischen Amerika sind ersch?tternde Bilder einer verst?rten Gesellschaft. &t;br/&t; "Einer der spannendsten und unabh?ngigsten amerikanischen Intellektuellen." Sieglinde Geisel, NZZ am Sonntag &t;br/&t; "Eliot Weinberger ist ein begnadeter ­Essayist." Michael Schmitt, Deutschlandfunk