Thoughts (Hesperus Classics)

Giacomo Leopardi

ISBN 10: 1843910128 / ISBN 13: 9781843910121

Edité par Hesperus Press, 2002

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Revue de presse: 'The 4,500 pages of Leopardi s notebooks end, in December 1832, with a poignant observation: ''The most unexpected thing that happens to you when you enter society, and often when you have grown old there, is to find the world just as they have described it and as you know and believe it to be in theory.'' The 'Thoughts' can be read as the fragmentary record of that discovery.' --Times Literary Supplement

'For Edoardo Albinati, who has written the foreword to this translation (by J.G. Nichols), Leopardi is a poet ''of almost unbearable purity'' who transfigures a kind of contrary intellectual energy which is essentially, and gloriously, adolescent. These maxims combine the urbanity of Voltaire and La Rochefoucauld with the rhapsodic immaturity of such artists, closer home, as Giovanni Pascoli and Pier Paolo Pasolini.' --Indian Telegraph

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Thoughts (Hesperus Classics)
Éditeur : Hesperus Press
Date d'édition : 2002
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket