Ongoingness

Manguso has written the memoir we didn t realize we needed The New YorkerIn Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay In it, she confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty five years I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened, she explains But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important Maintaining that diary, now eight hundred thousand words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice.Then Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two Copernican events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time Ongoingness is a spare, meditative work that stands in stark contrast to the volubility of the diary it is a haunting account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity in the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us Bold, elegant, and honest Ongoingness reads variously as an addict s testimony, a confession, a celebration, an elegy The Paris Review Manguso captures the central challenge of memory, of attentiveness to life A spectacularly and unsummarizably rewarding read Maria Popova,Brain Pickings Download Ongoingness – kino-fada.fr Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us by taking everything Gulp.Nothing s gone, not really Everything that s ever happened has left its little wound You will devour this book. Ongoingness is difficult to talk about, because the book is essentially a document talking about another document, so any review of it is a document talking about a document talking about a document The farther one gets from the original document, theabstract the whole thing becomes I ll do my best.Sarah Manguso kept a daily diary for many years then she stopped keeping one This book is about both of those things No excerpts from the diary are included Ongoingness is simply about the Ongoingness is difficult to talk about, because the book is essentially a document talking about another document, so any review of it is a document talking about a document talking about a document The farther one gets from the original document, theabstract the whole thing becomes I ll do my best.Sarah Manguso kept a daily diary for many years then she stopped keeping one This book is about both of those things No excerpts from the diary are included Ongoingness is simply about the issues keeping a diary raised for Manguso, and why she finally quit Recording daily events was Manguso s way of making sure that she was paying ...So short and spare it felt good to read in a day and write a review, adding to my 2017 read list But it s so unspecific in its language definitely hurt my estimation of it that I read this after KOK s perfectly descriptive, world evoking, utterlyanimated and alive Autumn and for a book about memory always fertile ground for literary agrarianism it underwhelms let s just say that the patron saint of memory, Monsieur Proust, compares favorably to this Pregnancy brain bits were i So short and spare it felt good to read in a day and write a review, adding to my 2017 read list But it s so unspecific in its language definitely hurt my estimation of it that I read this after KOK s perfectly descriptive, world evoking, utterlyanimated and alive Autumn and...Beautiful book about writing diaries, memory, loss, motherhood and time Profound but also slight and short, reminded me a little of Rebecca Solnit will be reading . Someday I might read about some of the moments I ve forgotten, moments I ve allowed myself to forget, that my brain was designed to forget, that I ll be glad to have forgotten and be glad to rediscover as writing The experience is no longer experience It is writing I am still writing. , , , Someday I might read about some of the moments I ve forgotten, moments I ve allowed myself to forget, that my brain was designed to forget, that I ll be glad to have forgotten and be glad to rediscover as writing The experience is no longer experience It is writing I am still writing. , , ,Manguso , , ,...I m left a bit speechless I couldn t stop reading, and I couldn t stop thinking this is too much, you need to stop and think about some of these things.I could have written this book Not in the way that people claim that anyone can write a book, but in the sense that every word of this book felt as true and as real to me as if I had written them myself Forty pages in and tears were rolling down my cheeks because I felt like I understood myself better than I ever had before, understood life like I never had before I knew I was grown up when I spent time with them and felt not just the weight of my old memories but the weight of theirs, from I could have written this book Not in the way that people claim that anyone can write a book, but in the sense that every word of this book felt as true and as real to me as if I had written them mys...The striving to remember always amazes me, because I spend so much time trying to forget.I m a person who has kept a journal since I was a young girl, and I am convinced that to non journal keepers, keeping a journal for long periods of time must feel like a Jedi Knight skill It might well be, I don t know I m too close to the pages to be able to make an objective assessment I know many people who struggle with keeping a journal, and personally I cannot imagine why they do But then, I also cannot imagine why people who can read don t All this means is a lack of imagination on m I m a person who has kept a journal since I was a young girl, and I am convinced that to non journal keepers, keeping a journal for long periods of time must feel like a Jedi Knight skill It might well be, I don t know I m too close to the pages to be able to make a...

• 11 July 2017
Sarah Manguso
• Hardcover
• 104 pages
• 1555977030
• Sarah Manguso
• Ongoingness