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The Man in the Lobby and Other Essays

The Man in the Lobby and Other Essays

Freedman, Gary

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Literary Fiction

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ISBN10: 1105044343
ISBN13: 9781105044342
Publisher: Lulu.com
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Man in the Lobby and Other Essays is a wide-ranging collection of literary nonfiction in which memory, history, fantasy, satire, and psychological reflection continually overlap. Moving from an enigmatic encounter between two neighbors to the Prague Spring, the Holocaust, psychoanalysis, music, politics, family history, and the strange comedy of ordinary life, Gary Freedman explores the unstable boundary between lived experience and imaginative reconstruction. The essays vary dramatically in tone. Some are intimate and elegiac; others are audacious, comic, or surreal. Throughout the collection, recurring themes of solitude, identity, mortality, memory, thwarted connection, and the search for meaning bind the pieces together. The result is less a conventional book of essays than a theater of consciousness-a world in which historical figures, private recollections, literary voices, and invented characters meet across time. At once intellectually ambitious and deeply personal, The Man in the Lobby and Other Essays asks how human beings transform experience into story, how the past survives within the present, and how imagination can preserve what life has lost. The collection contains twenty-one pieces, including Prague Spring 1968, The Indestructible within Us, Fourth of July in Maine 2020, A Consultation with Sigmund Freud, The Moonlight Sonata, The Steps, and the title essay.

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