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On Consolation - Finding Solace in Dark Times (Hardcover)
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On Consolation - Finding Solace in Dark Times (Hardcover)
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As read on BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week', a timely, moving and
profound exploration of how writers, composers and artists have
searched for solace while facing loss, tragedy and crisis, from the
historian and Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Michael Ignatieff.
'This erudite and heartfelt survey reminds us that the need for
consolation is timeless, as are the inspiring words and examples of
those who walked this path before us.' Toronto Star When we lose
someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe
strikes - war, famine, pandemic - we go in search of consolation.
Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of
consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and
the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often
empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity
since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its faith in
science, ideology, and the therapeutic. How do we console each
other and ourselves in an age of unbelief? In a series of portraits
of writers, artists, and musicians searching for consolation - from
the books of Job and Psalms to Albert Camus, Anna Akhmatova, and
Primo Levi - writer and historian Michael Ignatieff shows how men
and women in extremity have looked to each other across time to
recover hope and resilience. Recreating the moments when great
figures found the courage to confront their fate and the
determination to continue unafraid, On Consolation takes those
stories into the present, movingly contending that we can revive
these traditions of consolation to meet the anguish and
uncertainties of the twenty-first century.
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