ISBN: 9781908251824 - cinico: travels with a good professor at the time of the scottish referendum (3 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. 192 pages. With a Scottish professor of politics as his guide, a London-based Italian jo urnalist traverses Scotland seeking a big story on the independence referendum . What he gets instead are small stories from myriad points of view: a Ukrainian nationalist, a Russian religious guru, an eccentric Estonian, an Algerian and a dying man, amongst many others. After a chaotic romance with a Scottish campaig ner, the journalist, aptly named Cinico de Oblivii, leaves his post in London fo r Greece, where, reflecting on his time in Scotland, he writes a memoir (this bo ok). In which, we encounter the full spectrum of ideas on Scottish independence, including the ones Cinico's editor didn't want to publish. Cinico's stories exa mine how Europeans interpret each other and, more generally, how people relate. Like Candide, Cinico starts with the dominant mindset of his era, which is incap able of bringing him either understanding or contentment, but ends up with an aw areness that, though insufficient for the elusive happiness we all seek, is suff icient enough for a perfectly acceptable human existence. This self-described rant has some persuasive elements, especially in Cameron's discussion of the ch ances that Gaelic will survive in Scotland and his encouragement to raise childr en to be multilingual.-Library Journal.…