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#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's new graphic narrative, exploring the surreal nighttime world inside her mind-and untangling one of our most enduring human mysteries: dreams.
Ancient Greeks, modern seers, Freud, Jung, neurologists, poets, artists, shamans-humanity has never ceased trying to decipher one of the strangest unexplained phenomena we all experience: dreaming. Now, in her new book, Roz Chast illustrates her own dream world, a place that is sometimes creepy but always hilarious, accompanied by an illustrated tour through “Dream-Theory Land” guided by insights from poets, philosophers, and psychoanalysts alike. Illuminating, surprising, funny, and often profound, I Must Be Dreaming explores Roz Chast's newest subject of fascination-and promises to make it yours, too.
Published | 18 Jan 2024 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 128 |
ISBN | 9781620403228 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Dimensions | Not specified |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
It perhaps comes as no surprise that the cartoonist Roz Chast-into whose unique and zany mind readers of The New Yorker have peeked, via her instantly recognizable, beloved cartoons-has some weird dreams. Now, fans can see these dreams illustrated, along with an exploration into the history and meaning of dreams as we know them.
The New Yorker, "Best Books of the Year"
We give ourselves blissfully over to Chast as our tour guide through the 'Dream District of our brains.' Drawing in her familiar vibratory style, she details a bizarre series of oneiric adventures, including one in which Glenn Close's 'chest and face were covered with thousands of baby spiders,' and another in which she has to care for a murderous 'baby from the future.'
Washington Post, Best Graphic Novels of 2023
[Chast] has proved herself to be one of the funniest and most acute observers of modern urban living's insanities and anxieties. Now she has turned her gaze away from the streets and characters of her beloved New York City and toward her own sleeping mind . . . But Chast is Chast, and the sleeping world she depicts is only somewhat more absurd – and equally as funny and profound – as waking life.
David Marchese, New York Times Magazine
The cartoon chronicler of urban neurosis sketches scenes from her nocturnal imagination (food plays an outsize part) and wryly chews on the many theories of what the mind does when our eyes close. It's a little odds-and-endsy, but a pleasurable rummage nonetheless.
New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice
This Halloween, why not give Linus and Lucy a rest for Wallace and Roz? Chast's dreams are a window cracked open onto her creative process; a grab bag of treats more salty than sweet.
Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times Book Review
Inspired.
The New York Times, "33 Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall"
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