"This is one of
the
small
handful
of •
great
anthologies.•••
McConkey is a modem Proust, and this book is a collective remembrance of
things past. Here is a world of particular individual voices, each one saying, in a
fresh and different way, 'we are what we were.'"
-ROBERT D. RICHARDSON, JR.
"Most immediately striking is the erudition,
range, and originality of the selections....
Scientists, poets, essayists, philosophers, novelists, and theologians parade
through this anthology in a display of diverse perspectives and related insight that
is dazzling in its coherent complexity."
-ELIZABETH COLEMAN
"An
engrossing treasury
of commentaries on memory as the necessary condition of individual and cultur–
al identity, and as the provider of the materials and themes of our philosophies,
religions, and literary creations."
-M. H. ABRAMS
"It's altogether fitting that the
authorofCourtojAfmnory
and one of our best novelists,
James McConkey, should have
put together this invaluable
anthology of writers remember–
ing and writing about memory.
From St. Augustine, with whom
the 'anatomy' begins and ends,
to Proust, Nabokov, James Agee
and many others from this
century, the anthology is never
less than fascinating."
-WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD
$30.00. 528 pp.
The
Anatomy
of
Memory
AN ANTHOLOGY · EDITED BY JAMES McCONKEY
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