Sixty-Four Chance Pieces A Book of Changes

by Buckingham, Will

• ISBN13: 9789888273027
• ISBN10: 9888273027
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-07-01
• Publisher: Earnshaw Books

Summary

The Chinese I Ching, or Book of Changes, is one of the oldest and strangest of all books, a masterpiece of world literature, a divination manual, and a magnet for the deranged and the obsessive. In Sixty-Four Chance Pieces, novelist and philosopher Will Buckingham puts the I Ching to work, using it to weave together 64 stories of chance and change, each flowing from one of the I Ching’s 64 hexagrams. Moving between myth, fable, and travel writing, the collection offers an attempt to make sense of the maddening, changeable book that is the I Ching, with tales of inventors and fox-spirits, ancient poets and nonexistent rulers, kleptomaniac pensioners and infernal bureaucrats. Like the I Ching itself, this new Book of Changes is a puzzle, a conundrum, and a journey of many transformations, where nothing is quite what it seems.

Author Biography

Will Buckingham is a novelist, philosopher, and children’s author whose published works include Cargo Fever; The Descent of the Lyre; Finding Our Sea-Legs; Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling; and The Snorgh and the Sailor. He is a senior lecturer in creative writing at De Montfort University in Leicester, England.