The Limits of Vision
The Limits of Vision by Robert Irwin is a novel published by Dedalus in 1993, featuring 119 pages in English. This edition presents an imaginative narrative centered on Marcia, a young housewife who engages in a daily battle against dirt. As she navigates her routine activities, the story unfolds over the course of a single day, revealing the gradual unraveling of her sanity.
Readers will encounter Marcia’s unique conversations with Mucor, a personification of decay and ruin, alongside interactions with historical figures such as William Blake and Charles Darwin. The novel blends elements of art and fiction, offering a creative exploration of Marcia’s psyche as she confronts the chaos of her domestic life. This edition invites readers to delve into Irwin’s inventive storytelling and the intricate dynamics of Marcia’s world.
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Finally available again in the United States, “The Limits of Vision” is Robert Irwin’s irrepressibly entertaining and imaginative novel about a young housewife named Marcia and the war she wages against dirt. Set over the course of a single day as Marcia goes about her quotidian activities-having the girls over for coffee, tidying the house, making dinner-it becomes increasingly clear that her sanity is unraveling at an alarming rate. Irwin is at his creative best here, as he describes Marcia’s conversations with Mucor, the “mouthpiece for the Dirt, the Empire of Decay and Ruin, the Principle of Evil,” as well as such scientists and artists of the past as William Blake, Charles Dickens, Leonardo da Vinci, and Charles Darwin.
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