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Published: 01/03/2013
ISBN: 9781907903571
Extent: 203 pages

I Remember

Author: Joe Brainard

Introduced by: Paul Auster

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‘I Remember is a masterpiece. One by one, the so-called important books of our time will be forgotten, but Joe Brainard’s modest little gem will endure.’  Paul Auster

Joe Brainard’s I Remember is a cult classic, envied and admired by writers from Frank O’Hara to John Ashbery and Edmund White. As autobiography, Brainard’s method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each prefaced by the refrain ‘I remember’. He began work on his breakthrough piece at only twenty-seven in 1969, and with one stroke he consciously reinvented the genre of memoir. I Remember is now considered a cult classic, and is used as a teaching tool on writing courses around the world.

Published in the UK for the first time by NHE forty-two years after its original US publication in 1970, Brainard’s masterpiece is introduced here by Paul Auster, who calls it ‘inexhaustible, one of those rare books that can never be used up’.

Bound in black linen with iridescent foil, this edition is a must-have for any collector.

With an afterword by Ron Padgett.

'In simple, forthright, declarative sentences, he charts the map of the human soul and permanently alters the way we look at the world. I Remember is both uproariously funny and deeply moving. It is also one of the few totally original books I have ever read.'
Paul Auster
‘I would make a case for I Remember as one of the twenty or so most important American autobiographies, important for its air of unimportance and for its mingling of cultural bric-a-brac with sexual frankness and self-revelation.’
New Yorker
'Buy it, for everyone you know. The Bible aside, I can't think of a more original or lovely book.'
Olivia Laing, Guardian

 

Published: 01/03/2013
ISBN: 9781907903571
Extent: 203 pages

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‘I Remember is a masterpiece. One by one, the so-called important books of our time will be forgotten, but Joe Brainard’s modest little gem will endure.’  Paul Auster

Joe Brainard’s I Remember is a cult classic, envied and admired by writers from Frank O’Hara to John Ashbery and Edmund White. As autobiography, Brainard’s method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each prefaced by the refrain ‘I remember’. He began work on his breakthrough piece at only twenty-seven in 1969, and with one stroke he consciously reinvented the genre of memoir. I Remember is now considered a cult classic, and is used as a teaching tool on writing courses around the world.

Published in the UK for the first time by NHE forty-two years after its original US publication in 1970, Brainard’s masterpiece is introduced here by Paul Auster, who calls it ‘inexhaustible, one of those rare books that can never be used up’.

Bound in black linen with iridescent foil, this edition is a must-have for any collector.

With an afterword by Ron Padgett.

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Weight 0.25 kg
Dimensions 19 × 12 × 1 cm
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Hardcover

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