1st Edition

Going Down for Air A Memoir in Search of a Subject

By Derek Sayer, Charles C. Lemert Copyright 2004
214 Pages
by Routledge

213 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

What is hidden in the taste of a madeleine - or in snatches of Bob Dylan songs, operatic arias, and the remembered sting of a rattan cane? An exploration of memory, Going Down for Air artfully combines two very different yet connected texts. A Memoir is richly evocative not only of times past, but also of a very English, imperial, queerly masculine subjectivity, caught on the cusp of the... Read more
Chapter 1 Prelude: Walter Benjamin’s Cabinet; Chapter 2 A Memoir; Chapter 3 Oh, I Do Like to be Beside The Seaside; Chapter 4 In Search of a Subject;

Biography

Sayer, Derek; Lemert, Charles C.