The Book of a Thousand Eyes Le Spleen de Paris Melgard’s work cleaves personal agency

Melgard’s work cleaves personal agency from automated defaults by mapping trauma and technocracy from the inside out

Critical Quarterly

always asking how we might harness the power of naming without losing life’s ‘magic unknownness’

a record of one of the great writers of our age

The Book of a Thousand Eyes Le Spleen de Paris Melgard’s work cleaves personal agencyLyn Hejinian Written over the course of two decades, The Book of a Thousand Eyes was begun as an homage to Scheherazade, the heroine of The Arabian Nights who, through her nightly tale telling, saved her culture and her own life by teaching a powerful and murderous ruler to abandon cruelty in favor of wisdom and benevolence. Hejinians book is a compendium of 'night works'lullabies, bedtime stories, insomniac lyrics, nonsensical mumblings, fairy tales,