Jonas Mekas – I Seem to Live: The New York Diaries, Vol. 2 (1969–2011) Onomatopee In the Western historical representations

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Jonas Mekas – I Seem to Live: The New York Diaries, Vol. 2 (1969–2011) Onomatopee In the Western historical representationsI Seem to Live: The New York Diaries, 19502011 is Jonas Mekass key literary work. The first volume (19501969) of this magnum opus appeared posthumously in 2019. It ranks alongside his cinematic oeuvre, which he elaborated together with his brother Adolfas after their arrival in New York in 1949. In the 1950s, Mekas began to shoot his first films, in the process developing an essayistic format that he would use as a diary to record his day to day