{"product_id":"uncertain-manifesto","title":"Uncertain Manifesto","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn illustrated artist's memoir of the motivations, feelings, ideas, figures (including Samuel Beckett and Walter Benjamin), travels, and love affairs that have influenced his life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe writer and artist Frédéric Pajak was ten when he began to dream of  “a book mixing words and pictures: snippets of adventure, random  memories, maxims, ghosts, forgotten heroes, trees, the raging sea,” but  it was not until he was in his forties that this dream took form as \u003ci\u003eUncertain Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e.  The utterly original book that he produced is a memoir born of reading  and a meditation on the lives and ideas, the motivations, feelings, and  fates of some of Pajak’s heroes: Samuel Beckett and the artist Bram van  Velde, and, especially, Walter Benjamin, whose travels to Moscow,  Naples, and Ibiza, whose experiences with hashish, whose faltering  marriage and love affairs and critique of modern experience Pajak  re-creates and reflects on in word and image. Pajak’s moody black-and  white drawings accompany the text throughout, though their bearing on it  is often indirect and all the more absorbing for that. Between word and  image, the reader is drawn into a mysterious space that is all Pajak’s  as he seeks to evoke vanished histories and to resist a modern world  more and more given over to a present without a past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWith the support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50963888603424,"sku":"9781681372860","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781681372860.jpg?v=1764005384","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/uncertain-manifesto","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}