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Brombert, Victor, 1923- author.
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Mortality in literature.
Death in literature.
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Musings on mortality...
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Musings on mortality : from Tolstoy to Primo Levi / Victor Brombert.
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Brombert, Victor, 1923- author.
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Subjects
Mortality in literature.
Death in literature.
ISBN:
9780226062358 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
022606235X (hardcover : alkaline paper)
Description:
188 pages ; 23 cm
Contents:
Prologue : "To negate nothingness" -- Tolstoy : "Caius is mortal" -- Thomas Mann and the lure of the abyss -- Kafka : the death journey in the everlasting present -- Virginia Woolf : "Death is the enemy" -- Albert Camus : the endless defeat -- Georgio Bassani : "Even objects die" -- J.M. Coetzee and the scandal of death -- Primo Levi : the flawed design.
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Drawing deeply from the well of Brombert's own experience, Musings on Mortality is more than mere literary criticism : it is a moving and elegant book for all to learn and live by.
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Lihue Public Library
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