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The Poetics of Space |  | Author: Gaston Bachelard
Publisher: Beacon Press
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 10621
Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0807064734
Dewey Decimal Number: 114
UPC: 046442064736
EAN: 9780807064733
ASIN: 0807064734
Publication Date: April 1, 1994
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Amazon.com Review
This is a deep, magical, densely captivating book about space, our homes, how we live in them, and how dwellings and space affect us; it is as much a book of philosophy as a work of serious literature. It requires careful, preferably leisurely reading, with the possibility of moments to pause and digest and re-read the words. It will change the way you look at your home and your life, providing a deeper, more insightful relationship with the spaces you occupy.
Product Description
The classic book on how we experience intimate spaces.
"A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced—and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of Gaston Bachelard."
—from the foreword by John R. Stilgoe
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 Boring and excessively wordy July 14, 2010
Matthew Beyer
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had to read this for a class (that was out of my major). So I guess I'm not really in the target audience. If you like reading sentences like:
"In this reverberation, the poetic image will have a sonority of being."
Then you'll probably like this book. By the way, this is from the second page of the book, so the author hasn't really defined what he means by "reverberation" and "sonority of being" yet. As far as I can tell, he never really defined any of these terms (other than in some mushy mashy way invoking a bunch of other weird terms that I didn't understand).
I dunno, maybe I'm too simple a man to enjoy this stuff. I guess if you are considering buying it, you should go read the book preview. The entire book sounds exactly like so if you can stand that style, then I guess there are some insights to be had in there. But to me it all just came off as academic sophistry.
 book review May 14, 2010
Shirley Nachtrieb (St. Charles, Mo United States)
It's a great book and arrived quickly. It's highly recommended for creative artists and book makers
distracting and dreamy(not the good kind) January 13, 2010
G. Dunkel (Georgia)
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
I purchased this book to further my appreciation of architecture and was disappointed to discover this book only frustrates. I enjoy creative use of language to convey thoughts and ideas, however I feel this book fails to communicate much of anything other than disorganized emotions. I can best compare my experience reading this book to listening to the logic and argument of a 4 year old -only with bigger words.
English, please June 25, 2007
K. Busby
10 out of 29 found this review helpful
I don't know if the problem is in the content of the book, or in the translation, but the book was almost incomprehensible. Unfortunately, I don't speak French, so I can't read the original and compare them, but I suspect it is the translation, which appeared a bit stilted and unnatural (similar to translations of Frederick Bastiat's The Law, or Pierre Boulle's Planet of the Apes, both of which were oddly worded, although easily readable, and Bastiat wrote more than 150 years ago).
Maybe the translator didn't quite understand the topic, or have a conversational grasp of the English language, either of which would make translating difficult. I almost picked up my Strunk & White's Elements of Style to review their readability formula just to quantify how dense this book was, but restrained myself.
To the reviewers I read before buying this book, now I understand why a number of them wrote things like, "you have to be able to sit back and ponder the book, savoring the words before digesting them." I took this as a sign that there were deep meanings that mesmerized the reader, and looked forward to it. No. To translate that phrase into common English, it means, "the translator has an Oxford English Dictionary and he's going to use it."
 Whats the big deal February 7, 2007
Mr. Judgemental (Japan)
6 out of 38 found this review helpful
I don't get why this is the bible of architects. Its boring as hell. Sure people are affected by the spaces they inhabit for various conditioning reasons. OK thats obvious but do I need to read a whole book written in pompous philospeak to learn that.
Honestly I put it down half way. Too boring and too many other things to read. Life is short.
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