A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished miscellany mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley's office. Rooting through piles of papers, Critchley discovers a brilliant text on the ancient art of memory and a cache of astrological charts predicting the deaths of various philosophers. Among them is a chart for Critchley himself, laying out in great detail the course of his life and eventual demise. Becoming obsessed with the details of his fate, Critchley receives the missing, final box, which contains a maquette of Giulio Camillo's sixteenth-century Venetian memory theatre, a space supposed to contain the sum of all knowledge. That's when the hallucinations begin...
| ISBN: | 9780992974718 |
| Publication date: | 24th September 2014 |
| Author: | Simon Critchley |
| Illustrator: | Liam Gillick |
| Publisher: | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 68 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary essays |
A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished miscellany mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley's office.
Memory Theatre features in the following genres: Literary essays
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Memory Theatre was written by Simon Critchley and published by Fitzcarraldo Editions
Memory Theatre has 68 pages
£9.89, reduced from £10.99. In Stock.