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Sto caricando le informazioni... Que voit-on quand on lit ? (originale 2014; edizione 2015)di Peter Mendelsund (Auteur), Odile Demange (Traduction)
Informazioni sull'operaWhat We See When We Read di Peter Mendelsund (2014)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. [b:What We See When We Read|20758127|What We See When We Read|Peter Mendelsund|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1395939624l/20758127._SY75_.jpg|40090583] by [a:Peter Mendelsund|7136573|Peter Mendelsund|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1448231180p2/7136573.jpg] is a brilliant, beautifully constructed book awash in graphics, but I don't know what I read. He refers to many important authors in referencing his ideas: Proust, Melville, Wharton, Robbe-Grillet, Becket and disparagingly of Nabokov, but after I read a page and nod sagely, I could not tell you what I just read. He has thoughts about reading books versus watching movies or television or even theatre. Reading is the most active of these pursuits. He makes a number of references to the different ways people have visualized Anna Karenina when there is very little physical description of her in the book but we know she is poised, graceful, literate. Here is Mr. Mendelsund on queried readers' visual take on her in Slate.comhttps://slate.com/human-interest/2014/08/what-we-see-when-we-read-by-peter-mendelsund-a-phenomenology-of-reading-by-a-renowned-book-cover-designer.html Perhaps a reread will enlighten as these are important topics and do interest me. You know how the sum is more than the whole of the parts? That is this book. A number of the ideas in this unique volume, where text frequently takes up little space on a page and graphic representations of Mendelsund's ideas abound, were already familiar to me on a scientific level. But the magic of this book is the way it rises above lab-based observations about how our brains and senses work, in favor of exploring the delicious and highly personal experience of reading a book. A focus that is simultaneously narrow and broad. While reading this particular book I had frequent thoughts about sections I might want to comment on in a review, but in retrospect I realize that would just be wrong. This is not a book to be parsed out. It needs to be appreciated as a whole. These observations, appearing near the end of the book, provide a glimpse of Mendelsund's overall theme: "Authors are curators of experience. They filter out the world's noise, and out of that noise they make the purest signal they can-out of disorder they create narrative. They administer this narrative in the form of a book, and preside, in some ineffable way, over the reading experience. Yet no matter how pure the data set authors provide to readers-no matter how diligently prefiltered and tightly reconstructed-readers' brains will continue in their prescribed assignment: to analyze, screen and sort." How pleasant to be able to add another book to my "to re-read" shelf this early in the year. I can't recommend it highly enough to anyone with an interest in the relationship between author and reader. And words on a page. An interesting book! As an avid reader it was a fun exploration into how our brains consume words on a page and turn them into stories and images. Each book is performed by the reader in their own minds. We are both the performer and the audience. I realized as I was reading through the examples that (unlike the author) I rarely try to actively picture people in stories. Instead I think of them as actions and character. But the author makes the point that generally characters aren't fully physically described. Usually a characteristic or two stand in for the whole. And often attributes of personality fill out the rest of the picture of the character. This was a fun, not too deep read.
To his credit, Mr. Mendelsund keeps his tone light while thinking deliberately about fundamental things. He moves from a remembered family trip along a river, for example, to a sense that, as he writes, “Words are effective not because of what they carry in them, but for their latent potential to unlock the accumulated experience of the reader.” MenzioniElenchi di rilievo
"A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading--how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader. What do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did Melville ever really tell us what, exactly, Ishmael looked like? The collection of fragmented images on a page--a graceful ear there, a stray curl, a hat positioned just so--and other clues and signifiers helps us to create an image of a character. But in fact our sense that we know a character intimately has little to do with our ability to concretely picture our beloved--or reviled--literary figures. In this remarkable work of nonfiction, Knopf's Associate Art Director Peter Mendelsund combines his profession, as an award-winning designer; his first career, as a classically trained pianist; and his first love, literature--he considers himself first and foremost as a reader--into what is sure to be one of the most provocative and unusual investigations into how we understand the act of reading"--
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