TY  - BOOK
AU  - Small Staid,Mairead
TI  - The traces: an essay 
SN  - 1646052013
AV  - DG430.2 
U1  - 914.504 23/eng/20220616
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Dallas, Texas, Austin, Texas
PB  - Deep Vellum, A Strange Object
KW  - Small Staid, Mairead
KW  - Calvino, Italo.
KW  - Citt�a invisibili (Calvino, Italo)
KW  - fast
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Italy
KW  - Happiness
KW  - Happiness in literature
KW  - Travel
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Creative nonfiction
KW  - Travel writing
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Cities & memory -- Cities & desire -- Cities & signs -- Thin cities -- Trading cities -- Cities & eyes -- Cities & names -- Cities & the dead -- Cities & the sky -- Continuous cities -- Hidden cities
N2  - "The Traces is a ranging inquiry into the seductions of memory and travel, the fragile paradox of desire, and the art of making meaning from a life. Mairead Small Stead's debut, The Traces is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a reading of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. Poised between plummeting depressions, the author considers the intellectual merits of joy and the redeeming promise offered by the beauty, both natural and manmade, that surrounds her. Traveling from Florence to Rome to Capri, The Traces draws on the fields of physics, history, architecture, and cartography, spurred by thinkers from Aristotle and Montaigne to Cesare Pavese and Anne Carson"--
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