Download or read book Not Needing all the Words written by Annick Hillger and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-05-26 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not Needing all the Words looks at Ondaatje's work in relation to the post-Cartesian idea of the modern subject as split and alienated. Highlighting the distinction between aesthesis and logic, Hillger traces the ways in which Ondaatje responds to the continuing process of silencing art in the modern age of reason.