In the Presence of Schopenhauer

ISBN-13: 9781509543243 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 100 str.

Michel Houellebecq; Andrew Brown

Recenzje

?So when I borrowed ?Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life? from the municipal library of the seventh arrondissement in Paris (more specifically, its annex in the Latour-Maubourg district), I may have been aged twenty-six, but equally possibly twenty-five, or twenty-seven. In any case, this is very late in life for such a major discovery. At the time, I already knew Baudelaire, Dostoevsky, Lautreamont, Verlaine, almost all the Romantics; a lot of science fiction, too. I had read the Bible, Pascal?s Pensees, Clifford D. Simak?s City, Thomas Mann?s The Magic Mountain. I wrote poems; I already had the impression I was rereading, rather than really reading; I thought I had at least completed one period in my discovery of literature.??And then, in a few minutes, everything dramatically changed.?

Spis treści

Preface by Agathe Novak-LechevalierLeave childhood behind, my friend, and wake up!Chapter One: The world is my representationChapter Two: Look at things attentivelyChapter Three: In this way the will to live objectifies itselfChapter Four: The theatre of the worldChapter Five: The conduct of life: what we areChapter Six: The conduct of life: what we haveNotes

O autorze

Michel Houellebecq is a French writer, poet and essayist. His many bestselling books include Platform, The Possibility of an Island, Submission and Serotonin. He won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2010 and, in 2019, he was awarded the Légion d'honneur, France's highest order of merit.