Making Figures Scandinavia GERðUR KRISTNý

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Clezio has remarked that Lee is Korea’s strongest candidate for the Nobel Prize

and possibly descended from Edgar Allan Poe—and her husband Fenwick Scott

" overlapping the workaday world: a place where libraries can turn into jungles

vividly depicting the absurdity of a repressive political regime with exceptional daring and humor

Making Figures Scandinavia GERðUR KRISTNýAs a species and as a culture, we recognize ourselves by our capacity for possession, so that personhood is made equivalent to ownership. If, however, the way in which we imagine objects predisposes our behavior toward them, art can encourage us to reorient how we comport ourselves in a world that is not meant to be owned, that is not even meant for us. To frustrate the desolation of avarice, we must enrich our view of things, and Making FIgures takes