An illustrated artist's memoir of the motivations, feelings, ideas, figures (including Samuel Beckett and Walter Benjamin), travels, and love affairs that have influenced his life. The writer and artist Frédéric Pajak was ten when he began to dream of “a book mixing words and pictures: snippets of adventure, random memories, maxims, ghosts, forgotten heroes, trees, the raging sea,” but it was not until he was in his forties that this dream took form as Uncertain Manifesto. The utterly original book that he produced is a memoir born of reading and a meditation on the lives and ideas, the motivations, feelings, and fates of some of Pajak’s heroes: Samuel Beckett and the artist Bram van Velde, and, especially, Walter Benjamin, whose travels to Moscow, Naples, and Ibiza, whose experiences with hashish, whose faltering marriage and love affairs and critique of modern experience Pajak re-creates and reflects on in word and image. Pajak’s moody black-and white drawings accompany the text throughout, though their bearing on it is often indirect and all the more absorbing for that. Between word and image, the reader is drawn into a mysterious space that is all Pajak’s as he seeks to evoke vanished histories and to resist a modern world more and more given over to a present without a past. With the support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia

Uncertain Manifesto

Biographies & Memoirs

Pajak, Frédéric

Arts & Literature

New York Review Books

La guerre sexuelle

Literature & Fiction

Literary

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Première partie: LES POISSONS SONT TRAGIQUES - FREDI LE PROPHETE - MARTIN LUTHER, L'INVENTEUR DE

UN CERTAIN FREDERIC PAJAK: ENTRETIENS AVEC CHRISTOPHE DIARD

Diard, C

NOIR BLANC

Nietzsche au piano

Manifeste incertain 10: Les Étrangers (10)

Manifiesto incierto 2: Nadja, André Breton y Walter Benjamin bajo el cielo de París

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Errata Naturae Editores

L'immensa solitudine con Friedrich Nietzsche e Cesare Pavese

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