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Closer to Dust by Sara A. Rich is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Closer to Dust about?

No one thinks straight. At least no one remembers straight. But ten years ago, things were different, weren’t they? Roland Barthes once wrote that color in a photograph is like make-up on a corpse. No one is fooled. In anarchic denial of convenient truths, a young international couple meet and marry on a small Mediterranean island. Ten years later, the couple separate in part due to complications with immigration laws. Following this transcontinental rupture, fragmented histories emerge in response to the woman’s encounters with a series of color snapshots. There is death here, familiar to the mourner, as the photographs issue their special powers to magically and auspiciously predict the future and simultaneously to permit the return of the dead. The woman recognizes pieces of herself as past objects indexed within photographic stills, but paradoxically, she is present, outside in this chaos trying not to fall apart. The images and their objects yawn to remind us of the reluctant destiny of all our beloved memories, bodies, and things: that is, to disintegrate. Borrowing its title from a passage in The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald , Closer to Dust i s a séance, a gathering of in

Who reads Closer to Dust?

Author

Sara A. Rich

Publisher

Punctum Books

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781685710231

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Photography