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One of our true superstars of nonfiction (David Foster Wallace), Lewis Hyde offers a playful and inspiring defense of forgetfulness by exploring the healing effect it can have on the human psyche.

We live in a culture that prizes memoryhow much we can store, the quality of what's preserved, how we might better document and retain the moments of our life while fighting off the nightmare of losing all that we have experienced. But what if forgetfulness were seen not as something to fearbe it in the form of illness or simple absentmindednessbut rather as a blessing, a balm, a path to peace and rebirth?

A Primer for Forgetting is a remarkable experiment in scholarship, autobiography, and social criticism by the author of the classics The Gift and Trickster Makes This World. It forges a new vision of forgetfulness by assembling fragments of art and writing from the ancient world to the modern, weighing the potential boons forgetfulness might of

A Primer for Forgetting

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      Publisher Picador USA
      Published 22 September 2020
      ISBN-13 9781250619532
      978-1250619532
      ISBN-10 125061953X
      Also in:
      Memoirs Philosophy of mind Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      One of our true superstars of nonfiction (David Foster Wallace), Lewis Hyde offers a playful and inspiring defense of forgetfulness by exploring the healing effect it can have on the human psyche.

      We live in a culture that prizes memoryhow much we can store, the quality of what's preserved, how we might better document and retain the moments of our life while fighting off the nightmare of losing all that we have experienced. But what if forgetfulness were seen not as something to fearbe it in the form of illness or simple absentmindednessbut rather as a blessing, a balm, a path to peace and rebirth?

      A Primer for Forgetting is a remarkable experiment in scholarship, autobiography, and social criticism by the author of the classics The Gift and Trickster Makes This World. It forges a new vision of forgetfulness by assembling fragments of art and writing from the ancient world to the modern, weighing the potential boons forgetfulness might of

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