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Voyage Around My Room Xavier de Maistre

Voyage Around My Room von Xavier de Maistre

Voyage Around My Room Xavier de Maistre

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Zusammenfassung

A lively and utterly singular travelogue of the intricate curiosities that are directly within one's own reach

Voyage Around My Room Zusammenfassung

Voyage Around My Room Xavier de Maistre

In 1790, while serving in the Piedmontese army, the French aristocrat Xavier de Maistre (1763-1852) was punished for dueling and placed under house arrest for forty-two days. The result was a discursive, mischievous memoir Voyage Around My Room, and its sequel, Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room. Admired by Nietzsche and Machado de Assis, Ossian and Susan Sontag, this classic book proves that sitting on the living-room sofa can be as fascinating as crossing the Alps or paddling up the Amazon.

In addition to the Voyage and Expedition, this edition also includes the dialogue The Leper of the City of Aosta, a preface by Xavier's better-known older brother (the royalist philosopher Joseph de Maistre), and an introduction by Richard Howard.

Voyage Around My Room Bewertungen

De Maistre pioneered a mode of travel that was to make his name: room travel. Dressed in pink-and-blue pajamas, satisfied within the confines of his own bedroom, Xavier de Maistre was gently nudging us to try, before taking off for distant hemispheres, to notice what we have already seen. -- Alain De Botton
The late eighteenth century is when modernity (more exactly, the modernities) began. Sterne, Diderot, Rousseau-among the effortlessly brilliant writers of that incandescent era, there still remains Xavier de Maistre to discover or rediscover. His masterpiece, Voyage Around My Room, is one of the most original and mettlesome autobiographical narratives ever written. -- Susan Sontag
Funny and deceptively profound. -- The Guardian

Über Xavier de Maistre

Xavier de Maistre (1763-1852) was a French military man and writer. He began serving in the army at a young age, and lived primarily in Italy, but eventually moved to St. Petersburg, where he died. An award-winning translator and poet, Stephen Sartarelli lives in France. Richard Howard is a distinguished American, poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. Joseph de Maistre was a philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat.

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GOR013836020
9780811222105
0811222101
Voyage Around My Room Xavier de Maistre
Xavier de Maistre
Gebraucht - Gut
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New Directions Publishing Corporation
20160415
244
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