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Memory theatre

by Simon Critchley

A philosopher discovers astrological charts predicting his own death and a model of a sixteenth-century Venetian memory theatre among a deceased colleague's papers. These findings spark an obsession with fate and the organisation of universal knowledge.

Accession 9808 ISBN 9780992974718 Publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions
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