Voyage Around My Room
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 old…
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Weitere Autoren: Sartarelli, Stephen (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2210-5
- EAN: 9780811222105
- Produktnummer: 18327812
- Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 244 S.
- Masse: H20.5 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.0 cm 234 g
- Gewicht: 234
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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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.
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