Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 149 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

1. "Objects from a Borrowed Confession includes an epistolary novella, two essays, an experimental memoir, a letter, and a series of other prose works all circling the theme of confession. The book takes up questions of desire, loneliness, anger, envy, and grief as it considers what drives us to confess. Is confession "truth telling," or more a way to invent a narrative of selfhood? In confessing are we asking to be absolved, or seeking to be made whole? What is intimacy and is it possible to forge an intimacy with someone you have never met? Is love a feeling or a condition? Does the self exist once the mind is lost? What, finally, is the value of having and confessing a "self" in the face of violence and loss" --

Series statement

1. The new series ; #75

Uniform title

1. Prose works. Selections
2. New series ; #75.

Alternative title

1. Prose works.

Subject

1. Emotions
2. Identity (Psychology)
3. Intimacy (Psychology)
4. Self
5. Self-disclosure

Contents

1. What do we want to know and how far are we willing to go to get it? -- Objects from a borrowed confession -- The war reporter: on confession -- Destroyed works (or, expanded cinema) -- The light of is is: on anger -- Envy -- Destroyed works -- Pity pride and shame -- By beauty and by fear: on narrative time -- That's not me: an afterthought.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.