The Artist as Mystic: Conversations with Yahia Lababidi (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780987276049)

The Artist as Mystic is a set of lyric conversations between aphorists Yahia Lababidi and Alex Stein. These conversations constitute what Australians call a 'Songline'-a set of sacred songs that allow the reader/listener to navigate through an unknown terrain, in this case, populated by tortured and ecstatic souls: Kafka, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Rilke, Kierkegaard and Ekelund. These visionaries are masterfully evoked in this very fine work of biography and criticism. But these writings are more than the sum of notes on a page, they are song. The Artist as Mystic passes the test of all great writing, not only to delight, but to leave us knowing something of the subject, and ourselves, that we hadn't considered before.

Author: Alex Stein, Yahia Lababidi
ISBN-10: 0987276042
ISBN-13: 9780987276049
Publisher: Skomlin
Language: English
Published: 06/13/2012
Pages: 86
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.21d