Synopses & Reviews
Cultural Writing. In this fascinating first collection of prose, New York based writer and critic Raphael Rubinstein holds cinema, French geography, letters, paintings, newspaper clippings, music, and other cultural evidence up to the light, letting each serve as a prism to reflect his own memories and musings on an active, art-inflected life. These indeterminate, often unassuming mini-adventures...contain a magical substance that will set the reader's brain afire! -- Walter Abish. Jean-Luc Godard and Jean Eustache receive special attention in this compelling montage. Rubinstein, a senior editor at Art in America, is also the author of THE BASEMENT AT THE CAF? RILKE, available from SPD.
Synopsis
Postcards from Alphaville Raphael Rubinstein An engaging collection of autobiographical prose narratives from renowned art critic ("Art in America), poet and novelist Raphael Rubinstein, centering on the influence of cinema on his life. Jean-Luc Godard and Jean Fustache are the subjects of two diaristic sequences. The book culminates with a montage-like inventory of apparently randomly chosen objects, through which the author examines his own life and his family history.