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Seeing Further

Seeing Further

Kinsky, Esther
Schmidt, Caroline

Paperback

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1681378515
ISBN13: 9781681378510
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Nov 12 2024
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
In this autobiographical novel by a leading German author and translator, the narrator attempts to revive a run-down Hungarian movie theater--an unpromising endeavor that soon leads into a consideration of the building's history and an homage to the power of the cinema, imperiled as it may be in our time.

While travelling through the Great Alföld, the vast plain in southeastern Hungary, the narrator of Seeing Further stops in an all but vacant town near the Romanian border. There she happens upon a dilapidated movie theater. Once the heart of the village, it has been boarded up for years. Entranced, she soon finds herself embarking on the colossal task of renovating it in order to preserve the cinematic experience.

Seeing Further illuminates the cinema's former role as a communal space for collective imagining. For Esther Kinsky and her narrator, it remains a place of wonder, a dark room that unfurls a vastness not beholden to the ordinary rules of time and space. Seeing Further is an homage to cinema in words and pictures.

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