The Book of Emotions

✍ Scribed by Almino, João

• Book ID: 108868221
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 154 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781564786814

✦ Synopsis

Isolating these moments in his memory and attempting to analyze them much like a lens, he envisions "a haiku stripped of rhetoric that captures only what is in front of the camera." Yet, deprived of his sight, the photographer now must reconstruct his experiences as a series of affective snapshots, a diary of his emotions as they were frozen on this or that day. The result, then, is not the description of a remembered image, but of the emotional memory the image evokes. João Almino here gives us a trenchant portrait of an artist trying to close the gap between objective vision and sentimental memory, lea?ng through a catalog of his accomplishments and failures in a violent, artificial, universal city, and trying to reassemble the puzzle that was his life.