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What We See When We Read

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What We See When We Read

A San Francisco ChronicleÂ and Kirkus Best Book of the Year

A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of readingâ€”how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader.

What do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did Melville ever really tell us what, exactly, Ishmael looked like? The collection of fragmented images on a pageâ€”a graceful ear there, a stray curl, a hat positioned just soâ€”and other clues and signifiers helps us to create an image of a character. But in fact our sense that we know a character intimately has little to do with our ability to concretely picture our belovedâ€”or reviledâ€”literary figures. In this remarkable work of nonfiction, Knopf's Associate Art Director Peter Mendelsund combines his profession, as an award-winning designer; his first career, as a classically trained pianist; and his first love, literatureâ€”he considers himself first and foremost as a readerâ€”into what is sure to be one of the most provocative and unusual investigations into how we understand the act of reading.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Country	USA
Author	Peter Mendelsund
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780804171649
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Vintage
Manufacturer	Vintage
NumberOfPages	448
PublicationDate	2014-08-05
Publisher	Vintage
ReleaseDate	2014-08-05
Studio	Vintage

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