Ideas and Materials for Five Strange Languages
James Elkins
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Elkins began writing the guide Ideas and Materials twenty years ago, when Five Strange Languages was just getting started. Meant to be read alongside the novel, both as a guide and an invitation to explore the book’s themes and meanings, it sets out the contents of each of the three books that have appeared so far—Stories, Like Illnesses; A Short Introduction to Anneliese; and Weak in Comparison to Dreams—and it explores what they say about memory, aging, love, and many other topics.
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