Uncertain Manifesto - Thought-Provoking Book on Modern Philosophy & Existentialism | Perfect for Deep Reflection & Intellectual Discussion" （注：由于原标题"Uncertain Manifesto"过于模糊且缺乏SEO关键词，优化后版本： 1. 保留了原标题作为品牌识别 2. 添加了内容描述关键词"Thought-Provoking Book", "Modern Philosophy", "Existentialism" 3. 补充了使用场景"Deep Reflection & Intellectual Discussion" 4. 符合英文标题规范，用管道符分隔主副标题）

The writer and artist Frédéric Pajak was ten when he began to dream of “a book mixing words and pictures: snippets of adventure, random memories, maxims, ghosts, forgotten heroes, trees, the raging sea,” but it was not until he was in his forties that this dream took form as Uncertain Manifesto. The utterly original book that he produced is a memoir born of reading and a meditation on the lives and ideas, the motivations, feelings, and fates of some of Pajak’s heroes: Samuel Beckett and the artist Bram van Velde, and, especially, Walter Benjamin, whose travels to Moscow, Naples, and Ibiza, whose experiences with hashish, whose faltering marriage and love affairs and critique of modern experience Pajak re-creates and reflects on in word and image. Pajak’s moody black-and-white drawings accompany the text throughout, though their bearing on it is often indirect and all the more absorbing for that. Between word and image, the reader is drawn into a mysterious space that is all Pajak’s as he seeks to evoke vanished histories and to resist a modern world more and more given over to a present without a past.

With the support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia

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