The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss

The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss

by Jonathan Lethem
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss

The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss

by Jonathan Lethem

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Overview

Jonathan Lethem is perhaps our most active literary voice mining the genre margins of our culture. In this unique collection he creates an anthology that no one else could. He draws on the work of such unforgettables as Julio Cortazar, who presents a man caught between the ancient and modern worlds unable to say which is real; Philip K. Dick, who tells the story of a man trapped on a spaceship of the somnolent, unable to sleep and slowly losing his mind; Shirley Jackson, who takes us on a nightmarish trip across town with a young secretary; and Oliver Sacks, who presents us with an aging hippie who possesses no memory of anything that has taken place since the early seventies.

What Lethem has done is nothing less than define a new genre of literature-the amnesia story-and in the process he invites us to sit down, pick up the book, and begin to forget.

Also including: John Franklin Bardin, Donald Barthelme, Thomas M. Disch, Karn Joy Fowler, David Grand, Anna Kavan, Haruki Murakami, Flann O'Brien, Edmund White, and many others.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780375706615
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/17/2000
Pages: 432
Product dimensions: 5.15(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Jonathan Lethem lives in Brooklyn, New York. Motherless Brooklyn is coming from Vintage in Fall 2000.

Hometown:

New York, New York

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Education:

Left Bennington College after two years

Table of Contents

Introductionxiii
Dream Science3
The Night Face Up21
Other People30
Nightmare40
Memories of Amnesia56
Warm71
Soul Walker81
Cowboys Don't Cry93
The Second Coming103
Funes, His Memory119
The Black Curtain127
The Third Policeman141
Five Fucks156
Forgetting Elena176
Sarah Canary184
The Last Hippie196
Notes Toward a History of the Seventies227
Ticket to Ride237
The Fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's Invasion of Poland, and the Realm of Raging Winds248
Geoffrey Sonnabend's Obliscence: Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter--An Encapsulation254
I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon261
The Zebra-Struck280
The Squirrel Cage296
Louse311
Game321
The Affirmation326
Kleinzeit339
Days Between Stations343
"That in Aleppo Once ..."354
The Deadly Percheron364
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose385
Bibliography401
Contributors405
Permissions Acknowledgments411
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