{"product_id":"ninas-memento-mori-paperback","title":"Nina's Memento Mori - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMathias B. Freese\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNear the end of Nabokov's Lolita, Humbert makes an honest admission: \"[A]nd it struck me...that I simply did not know a thing about my darling's mind.\" That line sums up the isolate game of memorializing a deceased loved one, which is the basic tension in Nina's Memento Mori, an elegy to Mathias Freese's lost wife. The profound responsibility of answering the question \"Who was Nina?\" is left to the lone memoirist: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI can say or write anything I want about her...There is much writerly power in that. I am the executor of her probate in all things now. She is mine now in ways she could not be when alive. I am the steward of her memory.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFreese ends up analyzing himself, putting the \"me\" in \"memento\" and the \"i\" in \"mori,\" thanks to ever-giving Nina posthumously providing a therapeutic mirror or \"Rosebud,\" which Freese appropriates from \u003cem\u003eCitizen Kane\u003c\/em\u003e. But Freese mourns more over the burden of existence than over its loss. Appropriately, for \u003cem\u003eKane\u003c\/em\u003e is not about the symbolic sled as much as it's about the cumulative snow that buries it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 150\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.35 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 24, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53246556799283,"sku":"9781627877107","price":22.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/LVGSuZsWcy9781627877107.webp?v=1776287045","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/ninas-memento-mori-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}