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.
Über den Autor Will Buckingham
Marcus Weeks arbeitete nach seinem Studium der Musik und Philosophie u. a. als Lehrer, Restaurator für Musikinstrumente sowie Leiter einer Kunstgalerie. In seinen Veröffentlichungen bereitet er gesellschaftliche, wissenschaftliche und kulturelle Themen verständlich auf. Er ist an zahlreichen Werken der Big Ideas Reihe beteiligt.