{"product_id":"the-missing-pieces-isbn-9781584351597","title":"The Missing Pieces","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn incantatory catalog of cultural artifacts either lost to time or never realized.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e• A boarder for two years following a national funeral, Mirabeau is removed from the Pantheon and transferred to the cemetery of Clamart when his pornographic novels are discovered • A photograph taken by Hessling on Christmas night, 1943, of a young woman nailed alive to the village gate of Novimgorod; Hessling asks his friend Wolfgang Borchert to develop the film, look at the photograph, and destroy it • The Beautiful Gardener, a picture by Max Ernst, burned by the Nazis\u003cbr\u003e—from \u003ci\u003eThe Missing Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Missing Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e is an incantatory text, a catalog of what has been lost over time and what in some cases never existed. Through a lengthy chain of brief, laconic citations, Henri Lefebvre evokes the history of what is no more and what never was: the artworks, films, screenplays, negatives, poems, symphonies, buildings, letters, concepts, and lives that cannot be seen, heard, read, inhabited, or known about. It is a literary vanitas of sorts, but one that confers an almost mythical quality on the enigmatic creations it recounts—rather than reminding us of the death that inhabits everything humans create. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLefebvre's list includes Marcel Duchamp's (accdidentally destroyed) film of Man Ray shaving off the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven's pubic hair; the page written by Balzac on his deathbed (lost); \u003ci\u003eSpinoza's Treatise on the Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e (thrown into a fire); the final seven meters of Kerouac's original typescript for \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e (eaten by a dog); the chalk drawings of Francis Picabia (erased before an audience); and the one moment in André Malraux's life in which he exclaimed “I believe, for a minute, I was thinking nothing.” \u003ci\u003eThe Missing Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e offers a treasure trove of cultural and artistic detail and will entertain even those readers not enamored of the void.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Missing Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e is a list not only to be read an item at a time, but, as the very cover of the book itself might imply, to be viewed as a mishmash of things forgotten, and of things we need to dutifully remember.—\u003cb\u003eMicah McCrary\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookslut\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto a contemporary landscape of data mining and information fracking comes Henri Lefebvre's \u003ci\u003eThe Missing Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e, a beautifully absurd accumulation of useless numbers and gravid blankness.... Like history's own compacted narrative, Lefebvre's economy of restraint holds countless events suspended in a semicolon.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003cb\u003ePrudence Peiffer\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eI can't recommend it enough. The entries are short, tightly written fragments—a funny, absurd, poignant and melancholy gathering of things that once were, but are now gone.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003cb\u003eCarolina Miranda\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Missing Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e has as much to do with presence as with absence, and this tells us something about the canon, and—forgive me—about 'poetry in general.' I mean that no equivalent list of artworks or gains or successes could be so powerful as \u003ci\u003eThe Missing Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003e3:AM Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e—Henri Lefebvre, born in 1959 in Salon-de-Provence, lives and works in Paris. He founded and directs Les Cahiers de la Seine, a publishing house devoted to contemporary poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKate Zambreno, the author of two novels, \u003ci\u003eO Fallen Angel\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGreen Girl\u003c\/i\u003e and the work \u003ci\u003eHeroines\u003c\/i\u003e (Semiotext(e)), teaches in the writing programs at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College. She is at work on a series of books about time, memory, and the persistence of art, which includes \u003ci\u003eBook of Mutter\u003c\/i\u003e and the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eDrifts\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305117536485,"sku":"NP9781584351597","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781584351597.jpg?v=1767740535","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-missing-pieces-isbn-9781584351597","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}