Short Shadows: Gerhard Schoeman

by Gerhard Schoeman

Short Shadows is a book of cultural criticism, inflected with the author’s lyrical touch. The author turns his attention to a wide spectrum of personal experience, ideas, and cultural phenomena, which include: the loss of a mother, love and heartbreak, the phantom quality of photographs (the book includes over fifty photographs taken by the author), the folly of politicians, the hypocrisy of academia, the art of writing, art history, Facebook, television, branding, meditations on cities and towns. It is a poetically rich and intellectually astute book, which doesn’t shy away from critical reflection, but rather revels in it. Gentle and polemical, it is book of meditations, which will fascinate readers who are passionate about the cultural world around them.

236 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 31, 2015