The Wisdom of Donkeys: Finding Tranquility in a Chaotic World - Couverture souple

Merrifield, Andy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0802719929 ISBN 13 : 9780802719928

Editeur : Bloomsbury USA, 2010

Synopsis

A literary ode to peace, presence, and fulfillment inspired by a walk taken with a most surprising creature.

"The demon of speed is often associated with forgetting, with avoidance . . . and slowness with memory and confronting," observes Milan Kundera in his novel Slowness. With that purpose in mind-a search for slowness and tranquility, Andy Merrifield sets out on a journey of the soul with a friend's donkey, Gribouille, to walk amid the ruins and spectacular vistas of southern France's Haute-Auvergne.

As Merrifield contemplates literature, science, truth, and beauty amid the French countryside, Gribouille surprises him with his subtle wisdom, reminding him time and again that enlightenment is all around us if we but seek it.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born in Liverpool in 1960, Andy Merrifield taught geography for over a decade in assorted British and American universities. He is the author of four previous books, including biographies of two twentieth-century French philosophers. He now lives and writes in a small rural community in France's Auvergne region.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury USA
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802719929
• ISBN 13: 9780802719928
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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