For the Time Being (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Annie Dillard
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: History, science, and religion
- Time of Work: Prehistoric era to the present
- Setting: United States, Eastern Europe, Asia, and South America
- Principal Characters: Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, Baal Shem Tov
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, History, Science and technology
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Religion, Asia or Asians, Jews or Jewish life, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Biblical times, South America or South Americans, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Israel or Israelis, Jesuits, Prehistoric times
- Locales: Europe, United States, Asia, South America
There is something enchanting about a book entitled For the Time Being. Such a cliché for a title suggests a novel for summer reading, or, given the photograph of the Mongolian desert that graces the book’s cover, one might even expect an old-fashioned travelogue—perhaps something for the wayward tourist to flip through during a tedious layover. However, that which looks to be simple on the surface—indeed, what appears at first to be little more than surface—often reveals considerable depth upon closer inspection. Such is the case with Annie Dillard’s book. Both the...
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