The middle notebookes
By: Nathanael
Contributors: Nathanaël, 1970-; Nathanaël, 1970-; Nathanaël, 1970-
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9781937658380
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Notebooks, sketchbooks; Ethics; Fiction
Other titles: Middle notebooks
Work titles: Works
Description: "Nathanaël's philosophical notebooks propose a poetics of intimate engagement with mortality. The Middle Notebookes began in French, as three carnets, written in keeping with three stages of an illness: an onset and remission, a recurrence and further recurrence, a death and the after of that death. But the narrative only became evident subsequently; the malady identified by these texts was foremost a literary one, fastened to a body whose concealment had become, not only untenable, but perhaps, in a sense, murderous. It is possible, then, that more than anything, these Notebookes attest both to the commitment, and the eventual, though unlikely, prevention of, a murder. All of Nathanaël's prose seeks the terminal poem, the poem that passes into action, that passes through the window, invents the outwards of being, which is not being but becoming, innocently. There is no more prosaic poem than what today Nathanaël'swriting attempts. For this poet narrative speaks of nothing, it doesn't evoke, nor does it convoke: this writing is in movement toward the new man, the origin and the end of all philosophy as of all literature. In hatred of the novel and in hatred of the cinema, Nathanaël invents a new manner of registering and of representing the humanized living. Let us name this an erotic pictogrammatology"--
Notes: Translation of the author's three French carnets, Carnet de désaccords, June 2007-June 2008, Carnet de délibérations, August 2008-August 2009, and Carnet de somme, November 2010-November 2011.

Includes bibliographical references.

In English with some French passages.

Translated from the French.