{"product_id":"seeing-further-9781681378510","title":"Seeing Further","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this autobiographical novel by a leading German author and translator, the narrator attempts to revive a run-down Hungarian movie theater--an unpromising endeavor that soon leads into a consideration of the building's history and an homage to the power of the cinema, imperiled as it may be in our time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile travelling through the Great Alfold, the vast plain in southeastern Hungary, the narrator of \u003ci\u003eSeeing Further\u003c\/i\u003e stops in an all but vacant town near the Romanian border. There she happens upon a dilapidated cinema. Once the heart of the village, it has been boarded up for years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEntranced by the \u003ci\u003emozi\u003c\/i\u003e, as cinema is known in Hungarian, she soon finds herself embarking on the colossal task of reviving it, compelled by what she calls \"a dream in a glass coffin,\" the preservation of the cinematic experience, \"beautiful and undecayed like Snow White, in some people's thoughts and memories, nourishing the fantasy of it reawaking.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat follows\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis a history of place, told by the town's few remaining inhabitants and uncovered in physical traces of the past left behind in the grand old building. \u003ci\u003eSeeing Further\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the cinema's former role as a communal space for collective imagining, a site rooted in ritual that has steadily disappeared. For Esther Kinsky, it nevertheless remains a place of wonder, a dark room that unfurls a vastness not beholden to the ordinary rules of time and space. \u003ci\u003eSeeing Further\u003c\/i\u003e is an homage to the cinema in words and pictures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/22\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681378510\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Esther Kinsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44589937230005,"sku":"9781681378510","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_759bbd4e-7a0f-43b1-892c-ca8eaf8bc747.jpg?v=1724734211","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/seeing-further-9781681378510","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}