A Journey Around My Room: Xavier De Maistre (Alma Classics) - Softcover

De Maistre, Xavier

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847493084 ISBN 13: 9781847493088

Verlag: Alma Classics, 2017

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Book by De Maistre Xavier

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Críticas:

It was Blaise Pascal who said that all the troubles of humanity came about because of the difficulty men had in simply being happy to sit alone in their rooms; here is the result of such an enforced confinement. And it is wonderful. (...) This edition also includes the 1825 sequel, A Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room, which is just as good, as funny and deceptively profound as its predecessor; and he even makes it to the window-ledge this time. Andrew Brown's translation is excellent too. -- Nicholas Lezard * The Guardian * De Maistre... found the utmost strangeness in himself and the things he had taken for granted. * The Times *

Reseña del editor:

Finding himself locked in his room for six weeks, a young officer journeys around his room in his imagination, using the various objects it contains as inspiration for a delightful parody of contemporary travel-writing and an exercise in Sternean picaresque, and humorously demonstrating what one can explore without having set off to exotic locations. Accompanied in this volume by its equally superb sequel, `Nocturnal Expedition around my Room', in which a similar voyage is made at night several years later, `A Journey around My Room' is a masterly and innovative piece of writing, which was immensely popular in its time and would later influence Victor Hugo and Marcel Proust, among others.

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• Verlag: Alma Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1847493084
• ISBN 13: 9781847493088
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160