Conversation with Spinoza: A Cobweb Novel (Writings from an Unbound Europe) - Hardcover

Smilevski, Goce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810123754 ISBN 13: 9780810123755

Verlag: Northwestern University Press, 2006

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"Through this extraordinary literary expedition, [Smilevski] gives the Spinoza 'hologram, ' usually projected onto the pages of historic-philosophical studies, his peculiar double--a man of flesh and blood who paradoxically shares his lonely universe with all those existing, or to exist, similar to him." --Ana Dimishkovska, Macedonian P.E.N. Review "Not only does Smilevski fulfill the difficult task of explaining Spinoza's dense ideas, dropping sly references to Darwin and Kundera into 17th-century Dutch life, but he makes a hidden life wonderfully manifest." --European Jewish Press "A young heir to Gunter Grass and Jose Saramago, Smilevski might be the newest of a rare thing--a living European novelist with a message for the future of his continent, with an imagination borne against inheritance with such force that even Spinoza might have approved." --Forward

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Prizing ideas above all else, radical thinker Baruch Spinoza left little behind in the way of personal facts and furnishings. But what of the tug of necessity, the urgings of the flesh, to which this genius philosopher (and grinder of lenses) might have been no more immune than the next man - or the next character, as Baruch Spinoza becomes in this intriguing novel by the remarkable young Macedonian author Goce Smilevski. Smilevski's novel brings the thinker Spinoza, all inner life, into conversation with the outer, all-too-real facts of his life and his day - from his connection to the Jewish community of Amsterdam, his excommunication in 1656, and the emergence of his philosophical system to his troubling feelings for his fourteen-year-old Latin teacher Clara Maria van den Enden and later his disciple Johannes Casearius. From this conversation there emerges a compelling and complex portrait of the life of an idea - and of a man who tries to live that idea.

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• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0810123754
• ISBN 13: 9780810123755
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112