{"product_id":"songs-for-olympia-paperback","title":"Songs for Olympia - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTomoé Hill\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the twilight of life, a black ribbon emerges from a frame and coils itself inside the mind of one of the great French chroniclers of the internal. Across the world, a young girl stares at an image in a book: a woman, naked but for slippers, jewels, and the same ribbon which so captivates the writer. At opposite poles of experience, one follows the ribbon as it winds its way round longings, regrets, and contemplations; the other, at the beginning of development and yet to discover the world, traces the ribbon with a finger, not realising how it will imprint itself upon her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYears later, the girl-now woman-encounters the ribbon face to face and on the page. Manet's Olympia and the words of Michel Leiris come together, and an imaginary conversation ensues. It will be a collision and collaboration of sensorial memories and observations on everything from desire and illness to writing and grief. These frames are used to examine both interlocutors; simultaneously, a frame of another sort is removed from Olympia and her artistic kin. Everything from her flowers, Louise Bourgeois's \u003cem\u003eSainte Sébastienne\u003c\/em\u003e, and Francis Bacon's Henrietta Moraes are reimagined and given new regard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSongs for Olympia\u003c\/em\u003e, written in the form of a response to Michel Leiris's \u003cem\u003eThe Ribbon at Olympia's Throat\u003c\/em\u003e, itself a highly personal response to Manet's painting, is an ode to the both the ribbon and the memory: what leads us to constantly rediscover ourselves and a world so easily assumed as viewed through a single frame.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 98\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.27 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42726672728127,"sku":"9781952386671","price":34.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/37c48761ddeaa2cda9864f3c64eeb481.webp?v=1765111886","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/songs-for-olympia-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}