An Education in Happiness: The Lessons of Hesse and Tagore

Arzeni, Flavia

ISBN 10: 1906548110 / ISBN 13: 9781906548117

Verlag: Pushkin Pr Ltd, 2009

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers GOR001911778

Inhaltsangabe:

Happiness is neither a privilege of the few, nor a fleeting state of mind: it is hidden behind a door that every person can open once they have found it, at the end of an arduous journey of self-discovery.
The two Nobel Prize-winning writers Rabindranath Tagore and Hermann Hesse are arguably very different: one comes to us from the core of Indian culture, the other from the very heart of Old Europe; the former is an eternal wanderer, the latter a determined armchair traveller. Still, there are extraordinary affinities between their works, and they both understood that the path to happiness is paved with small acts and simple notions.
Flavia Arzenis book offers us an oasis of stability and calm in which we can find the answers to our fundamental concerns about life and happiness.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Flavia Arzeni is Professor of Modern German Literature at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University La Sapienza in Rome.

Flavia Arzeni is Professor of Modern German Literature at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University La Sapienza in Rome.

She has travelled extensively and lived in Tokyo, London and Washington DC.

Her previous works include Images and Symbols, Japonism in European Culture in the 19th and 20th century (II Mulino), Berlin, A Literary Journey (Sellerio) and The Journey to Rome: from Freud to Pina Bausch (Edizioni di Storie e Letteratura). An Education in Happiness was first published in Italian by Rizzoli in 2008 and was awarded the Grinzane Pavese prize.

Happiness "is neither a privilege of the few, nor a fleeting state of mind: it is hidden behind a door that every person can open once they have found it, at the end of an arduous journey of self-discovery."

The two Nobel Prize-winning writers Rabindranath Tagore and Hermann Hesse are arguably very different: one comes to us from the core of Indian culture, the other from the very heart of Old Europe; the former is an eternal wanderer, the latter a determined armchair traveller. Still, there are extraordinary affinities between their works, and they both understood that the path to happiness is paved with small acts and simple notions.

Flavia Arzeni's book offers us an oasis of stability and calm in which we can find the answers to our fundamental concerns about life and happiness.

Flavia Arzeni teaches German Literature and Culture at the University of La Sapienza in Rome. Howard Curtis's translation of Marc Dugain's The Officers' Ward was nominated for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and his translation of Edoardo Albinati's Coming Back won the John Florio Italian Translation Prize of the Translators' Association of Great Britain.

Flavia Arzeni is Professor of Modern German Literature at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University La Sapienza in Rome. Her previous works include Images and Symbols. Japonism in European Culture between the 19th and 20th century (Il Mulino, 1987), Berlin, A Literary Journey (Sellerio, 1997) and The Journey to Rome. From Freud to Pina Bausch (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2001). An Education in Happiness: The Lessons of Hesse and Tagore was first published in Italian by Rizzoli in 2008 and was awarded the Grinzane Pavese prize. The author has travelled extensively and lived in Tokyo, London and Washington DC.

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Titel: An Education in Happiness: The Lessons of ...
Verlag: Pushkin Pr Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good