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Loading... The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1938)by Joseph Joubert
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Paul Auster translates this edition and we get an abridged series of aphorisms, thoughts, opinions on literary style, art and various aspects of life. Joubert was intelligent, well-read, thoughtful...and I added many quotes from his NOTEBOOKS into a book of commonplace I've kept for almost twenty years. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) wrote daily for over 40 years without producing a single book. This selection from his notebooks, edited and translated by Paul Auster, contains samples of his reflections on writing, judgments of his contemporaries, pronouncements against scientific materialism, parenting tips, aesthetic musings, comments on the Revolution and its aftermath, and cosmic miniatures. Not published in their entirety until 1938, the notebooks reveal Joubert as an author of great clarity and depth, perhaps France's first truly modern writer. Thought for the Day- 'The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading old books'. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)848.603Literature French and related languages Miscellaneous French writings Revolution and empire 1789–1815 Diaries, journals, notebooks, reminiscencesLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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