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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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R372
Discovery Miles 3 720
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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.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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