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'‘It starts to rain as I step out of my hotel ….’ So begins Subhash Jaireth’s striking collection of essays on the writers, and their writing, that have enriched his own life. The works of Franz Kafka, Marina Tsvetaeva, Mikhail Bulgakov, Paul Celan, Hiromi Ito, Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza and others ignite in him the urge to travel (both physically and in spirit), almost like a pilgrim, to the places where such writers were born or died or wrote. In each essay a new emotional plane is reached revealing enticing connections. As a novelist, poet, essayist and translator born into a multilingual environment, Jaireth truly understands the power of words across languages and their integral connections to the life of the body and the spirit. Drawing on years of research, translation and travel Spinoza’s Overcoat – and its illuminations of loss, mortality and the reverie of writing – will linger with readers.'
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- Large print.
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Works about this Work
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Prodigal Son : Conversations with Readers and Writers
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 422 2020; (p. 44)
— Review of Spinoza's Overcoat : Travels with Writers and Poets 2020 selected work essay 'For some of us, love for a work of literature brings with it a desire to learn about the work’s gestation. All the literary theory in the world can insist that a piece of writing is not a question to which the author holds the answer, but whenever a book or poem or essay catches our interest, we want to know more about the person behind it.' (Introduction)
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Prodigal Son : Conversations with Readers and Writers
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 422 2020; (p. 44)
— Review of Spinoza's Overcoat : Travels with Writers and Poets 2020 selected work essay 'For some of us, love for a work of literature brings with it a desire to learn about the work’s gestation. All the literary theory in the world can insist that a piece of writing is not a question to which the author holds the answer, but whenever a book or poem or essay catches our interest, we want to know more about the person behind it.' (Introduction)
Awards
- 2021 winner Australian Capital Territory Book of the Year Award
- 2020 shortlisted ACT Notable Awards — Nonfiction — Big Press