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Voyage Around My Room (Paperback)
Xavier De Maistre; Translated by Stephen Sartarelli; Introduction by Richard Howard; Preface by Joseph De Maistre
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R387
Discovery Miles 3 870
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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.
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A journey round my room
Xavier De Maistre
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R1,738
R1,633
Discovery Miles 16 330
Save R105 (6%)
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Finding himself locked in his room for six weeks, a young officer
journeys around his room in his imagination, using the various
objects it contains as inspiration for a delightful parody of
contemporary travel-writing and an exercise in Sternean picaresque,
and humorously demonstrating what one can explore without having
set off to exotic locations. Accompanied in this volume by its
equally superb sequel, ‘Nocturnal Expedition around my Room’,
in which a similar voyage is made at night several years later,
‘A Journey around My Room’ is a masterly and innovative piece
of writing, which was immensely popular in its time and would later
influence Victor Hugo and Marcel Proust, among others.
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