{"product_id":"the-missing-pieces-9781584351597","title":"The Missing Pieces","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn incantatory catalog of cultural artifacts either lost to time or never realized.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e- A boarder for two years following a national funeral, Mirabeau is removed from the Pantheon and transferred to the cemetery of Clamart when his pornographic novels are discovered - A photograph taken by Hessling on Christmas night, 1943, of a young woman nailed alive to the village gate of Novimgorod; Hessling asks his friend Wolfgang Borchert to develop the film, look at the photograph, and destroy it - The Beautiful Gardener, a picture by Max Ernst, burned by the Nazis\u003cbr\u003e--from \u003ci\u003eThe Missing Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Missing Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e is an incantatory text, a catalog of what has been lost over time and what in some cases never existed. Through a lengthy chain of brief, laconic citations, Henri Lefebvre evokes the history of what is no more and what never was: the artworks, films, screenplays, negatives, poems, symphonies, buildings, letters, concepts, and lives that cannot be seen, heard, read, inhabited, or known about. It is a literary vanitas of sorts, but one that confers an almost mythical quality on the enigmatic creations it recounts--rather than reminding us of the death that inhabits everything humans create. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLefebvre's list includes Marcel Duchamp's (accdidentally destroyed) film of Man Ray shaving off the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven's pubic hair; the page written by Balzac on his deathbed (lost); \u003ci\u003eSpinoza's Treatise on the Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e (thrown into a fire); the final seven meters of Kerouac's original typescript for \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e (eaten by a dog); the chalk drawings of Francis Picabia (erased before an audience); and the one moment in André Malraux's life in which he exclaimed \"I believe, for a minute, I was thinking nothing.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Missing Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e offers a treasure trove of cultural and artistic detail and will entertain even those readers not enamored of the void.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Semiotext(e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781584351597\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.24h x 5.46w x 0.26d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/20\/2014\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Henri Lefebvre","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378724569269,"sku":"9781584351597","price":11.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_2f6cd2db-63d4-4cb8-b7c0-7a9fa2f83829.jpg?v=1753159605","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-missing-pieces-9781584351597","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}