Name: The Visible Unseen: Essays (en Inglés)
Price: 24850.00 CLP
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Author: Chapela, Andrea ; Vanada, Kelsi
ISBN: 9781632063526

portada The Visible Unseen: Essays (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Andrea Chapela

Traducido por

Kelsi Vanada

Editorial

Restless Books

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

160

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

18.5 x 12.7 x 2.0 cm

Peso

0.27 kg.

ISBN13

9781632063526

Categorías

Biografías de científicos y doctores
Ensayos literarios
Física óptica

The Visible Unseen: Essays (en Inglés)

Andrea Chapela (Autor) · Kelsi Vanada (Traducido por) · Restless Books · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "The Visible Unseen: Essays (en Inglés)"

Andrea Chapela, one of Granta's Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists of 2021, breaks down literary and scientific conventions in this prize-winning collection of experimental essays exploring the properties and poetics of glass, mirrors, and light as a means of understanding the self. In powerful, formally inventive essays, The Visible Unseen disrupts the purported cultural divide between arts and science. As both a chemist and an award-winning author, Chapela zeros in on the literary metaphors buried in the facts and figures of her scientific observations. Through questioning scientific conundrums that lie beyond the limits of human perception, she winds up putting herself under the microscope as well.While considering the technical definition of glass as a liquid or a solid, Chapela stumbles upon a framework for understanding the in-between-ness of her own life. Turning her focus toward mirrors, she finds metaphors for our cultural obsessions with self-image in the physics and chemistry of reflection. And as she compiles a history of the scientific study of light, she comes to her final conclusion: that the purpose of description--be it scientific or literary--can never be to define reality, only to confirm our perception of it. Lyrical, introspective, and methodical, The Visible Unseen constructs a startling new perspective from which to examine ourselves and the ways we create meaning.