And, keep in mind that this book is about baseball in the same way Moby Dick is about whaling. Let us know if you have read The Art of Fielding and what you think.
There are many layers of meaning, all beautifully conceived and conveyed to the reader. Our reading group loved the book and could have spent hours discussing it. The reader witnesses and vicariously experiences a lot of growth in this novel. Return to Thoughtless Being.” This in turn, ties together all the strivings of the main characters–self discovery and the ability to build relationships with one another. The introduction of Melville, and Moby Dick in particular, provides a philosophical point-counterpoint between monomania and principles from The Art of Fielding (a book within the book) such as, “There are three stages: Thoughtless being. (Guert’ s Harvard dissertation on “the homosocial and the homoerotic in 19th-century American letters,” becomes an influential book titled “The Sperm-Squeezers.”) In a counterintuitive and lyrical meditation, Iyer takes a look at the incredible insi. And, while Westish is landlocked, a statue of Herman Melville graces the campus and gazes out toward Lake Michigan. The place that travel writer Pico Iyer would most like to go Nowhere. Inspired by a lecture Guert finds ‘tucked between two brittle magazines’ in the Westish library in 1969 authored by none other than Herman Melville, the school’s mascot becomes a whale and the athletic teams are named The Harpooners. To complicate matters a bit, Pella is the college president’s daughter, and the college president (Guert Affenlight) falls in love with Owen.Īnd should you need a touch more enticing, Westish has an unusual backstory. But what is really so compelling and unusual is that this is actually several stories of initiation linked by one zen-like character named Owen Dunne (called “Buddha” by his friends).Ĭircling Owen is his roommate Henry, Henry’s mentor Mike, and Mike’s girlfriend, Pella Affenlight. The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach’s remarkable novel, takes place at Westish College, “that little school in the crook of the baseball glove that is Wisconsin.” This is the ideal backdrop for a tender coming of age story, but that is just a small part of the sweeping novel Harbach creates. While this is not a light read, it is just perfect for the dog days ahead. If you are a smart woman looking for a wonderful summer book (now available in paperback for those who still like to hold their fiction) then here’s our pick. He projects this stillness and his teammates respond.–Aparicio Rodriguez Traditionally, cinema theory saw cinema and especially the illusion of motion as part of the ideological swindle of the basic cinematic apparatus. The shortstop is a source of stillness at the center of the defense. New technological media such as film, photography and computers have altered the way we perceive possible relations between stillness and motion in the visual arts.
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