Musings on mortality : from Tolstoy to Primo Levi / Victor Brombert.

  • Brombert, Victor, 1923-
Date:
2013
  • Books

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Description

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.

Publication/Creation

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Physical description

188 pages ; 23 cm

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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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    EK.AI
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ISBN

  • 9780226062358
  • 022606235X