Mirror Gazing is a book about reading and looking, about what people seek when they read, and about what stares back at them from the printed page. It is an archival project, based on a wealth of material collected daily by celebrated critic Warren F. Motte over thirty-five years and squirreled away for some eventual winter. It is also a love letter, a confession, a tale of deep obsession, and a cry for help addressed to anyone who takes literature seriously. ?At heart, this is not just a book about mirror scenes, interesting as they are? and they are interesting. It?s also a look at passion, at collection, at personal taxonomies and the game of creating order from disorder (do we ever win that game?). It?s about how we read and why we read. And it?s about the Delphic maxim, ?Know thyself.? Motte explores how characters look for (or suddenly catch) themselves in mirrors, as well as how (or...
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