The Wrench - Softcover

Levi, Primo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 034913863X ISBN 13: 9780349138633

Verlag: Abacus, 2013

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Reseña del editor:

'This is not a book for journalists. Civil servants, too, will feel uneasy while reading it, and as for lawyers, they will never sleep again. For it is about a man in his capacity as homo faber, a maker of things with his hands, and what has any of us ever made but words. I say it is "about" the man who makes; truly, it is more a hymn of praise than a description, and not only because the toiler who is the hero of the book is a hero indeed - a figure, in his humanity, simplicity, worthy of inclusion in the catalogue of mythical giants alongside Hercules, Atlas, Gargantua and Orion. He is Faussone, a rigger' Bernard Levin, The Times

Contraportada:

'A masterpiece of quiet patience'
London Daily News

'This is not a book for journalists. Civil servants, too, will feel uneasy while reading it, and as for lawyers, they will never sleep again. For it is about a man in his capacity as homo faber, a maker of things with his hands, and what has any of us ever made but words. I say it is "about" the man who makes; truly, it is more a hymn of praise than a description, and not only because the toiler who is the hero of the book is a hero indeed - a figure, in his humanity, simplicity, worthy of inclusion in the catalogue of mythical giants alongside Hercules, Atlas, Gargantua and Orion. He is Faussone, a rigger.'
Bernard Levin, The Times

'One of the sanest, most experienced and wisest books I've ever read'
Glasgow Herald

'Transforms molecules and ballbearings into romantic fairy-tales'
Vogue

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Abacus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 034913863X
• ISBN 13: 9780349138633
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256