Damion Searls: 4 books
The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust
A Critical Study of Remembrance of Things Past
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
"[The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust] reduces the ungainly and intricately designed masterpiece to its shape, and with hardly a wasted word...The paragraphs on habit and memory are truly wonderful—wonderful as explication, as psychology, and as philosophy."—John Updike
"Almost...
The Inkblots
Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
The captivating, untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot test
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • New York Post • Sunday Times (UK) • Irish Independent
In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment...
by Damion Searls, Yasushi Inoue
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
More than a thousand years ago, an extraordinary trove of early Buddhist sutras and other scriptures was secreted away in caves near the Silk Road city of Tun-huang. But who hid this magnificent treasure and why? In Tun-huang, the great modern Japanese novelist Yasushi Inoue tells the story of Chao...
by Marcel Proust, John Ruskin, Eric Karpeles
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
"To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those...