ARGONAUT BOOKS

Seeing Further is a powerfully eloquent declaration of love to the cinema and the collective experience of watching by Esther Kinsky, one of Germany's most important contemporary writers.  Reviews 'The narrator's own reminiscences of the last century, "the cinema century," unfurl a vast cultural memory of moviegoing as a lost form of community, even shelter-taking…. The cinema produces a kind of magic, which we might call the magic of the frame. And Seeing Further, in line after gorgeously elaborated line, tracks the struggle to produce that magic for oneself.'  -...Read More