Voyage Around My Room
A lively and utterly singular travelogue of the intricate curiosities that are directly within one's own reachIn 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,…
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Weitere Autoren: Sartarelli, Stephen (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2234-1
- EAN: 9780811222341
- Produktnummer: 34248320
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 244 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'452 KB
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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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