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Nominated for Gmund Award 2021, for excellence in book design & print
You’re not likely to encounter another book like this in a hurry. Brilliantly (and wittily) weaving together art history, psychology and theology, it invites us to think about imagination and truth, presence and absence, and the way in which human beings manage to avoid noticing what is significant – but not quite successfully enough to make them comfortable.
Rowan WilliamsAs two people quietly discuss Bernhard Strigel’s paintings of the guardians at the tomb, their voices blend and clash with the panicked voices of the guards themselves. A stunning short novel.
Philip TerryGiven Griffiths’s career as a librettist and musicologist, a distinctly Da Ponte-ish symmetry between “high” and “low” voices and a certain exactitude of pacing and weight, it is tempting to postulate music as a suggestive absence in the book, a kind of dark matter that might fill and charge the spaces between and alongside the words.
Keith Miller, The TLSPaul Griffiths movingly explores the primary need for attentiveness in our lives, how impossible that is for us to maintain and how art can help us grasp the contradiction… rich grounds for reflection.
Gabriel Josipovici, The TLSThis is a layered book weaved on that threshold between faith and doubt. At the same time, it manages to be humorous, gripping, and energetic.
Nathan Munday, Wales Arts ReviewThere is no doubt that this is in a different league. Drop the Booker book you’re reading and read this instead.
Paul Fulcher
Description
by Paul Griffiths
The Tomb Guardians awake to find the tomb empty and one of their number missing. Their conversation overlaps with another – an anguished lecturer and friend exploring the Renaissance Master portraits they occupy. One looks back at the dawn of the Reformation, the other thrashes out an excuse.
Author of Mr. Beethoven (The Goldsmiths Prize 2020 shortlist; The Walter Scott Prize 2021 and Republic of Consciousness Prize 2021 longlists), Paul Griffiths sustains this theme: the power of the imagination to unlock history.
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Additional information
Weight | 0.45 kg |
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Dimensions | 19 × 13 × 1 cm |
Edition | Artists Book, Paperback |
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