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The Book of Nonexistent Words

The Book of Nonexistent Words

Author: Stefano Massini

Publisher: HarperVia

ISBN: 0063004771

Category: Literary Collections

Page: 272

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"How many times have words not been enough? How many complex feelings don't have a corresponding noun that properly describes them in the dictionary? How many times has a language left us like an archer without arrows in the labyrinth of our emotions? Award winning author Stefano Massini found himself feeling this way too often. With great surprise, he began to feel that the ancient rules of language were not a flowing palette of colors he could use to paint all things, but instead a limiting force robbing him of the freedom of expression. So, he returned to the wondrous mechanism that has fed our dictionaries from time immemorial. If a word was missing, he created one. Every chapter mentions a new word that comes from a story about a real person, from Louis XIV to an American gangster. The result is a flowing, beautifully-illustrated collection of linguistic origin stories wrought from the mind of an internationally renowned storytelling icon. In doing so, Massini effectively liberates the human capacity for using language creatively, and for embracing storytelling to fine tune our way of being in the world. If the language in the dictionary doesn't feel adequate to deal with reality here and now, he inspires readers to create new words that ring true"--
The Book of Nonexistent Words
Language: en
Pages: 272

The Book of Nonexistent Words

Authors: Stefano Massini
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher: HarperVia

"How many times have words not been enough? How many complex feelings don't have a corresponding noun that properly describes them in the dictionary? How many times has a language left us like an archer without arrows in the labyrinth of our emotions? Award winning author Stefano Massini found himself
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Language: en
Pages: 238

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-09 - Publisher: Faber & Faber

'This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme, the interior of a thought, the interior of a single, unique situation the understanding of which recedes from my sight
An Ancient Commentary on the Book of Revelation
Language: en
Pages:

An Ancient Commentary on the Book of Revelation

Authors: Milan Kundera
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-21 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

This is a new critical edition, with translation and commentary, of the Scholia in Apocalypsin, which were falsely attributed to Origen a century ago. They include extensive sections from Didymus the Blind's lost Commentary on the Apocalypse (fourth century) and therefore counter the current belief that Oecumenius' commentary (sixth century)
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Pages: 456

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Language: en
Pages: 154

The Book of the Secrets of Enoch

Authors: William Richard Morfill
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-06 - Publisher: Health Research Books

1896 Translated from the Slavonic by W.R. Morfill. Reader in Russian and the other Slavonic languages. Edited, with introductory notes & indices by R. H. Charles, M.A., Trintiy college, Dublin & Exeter college, Oxford. (1896). the Secrets of Enoch is.

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