The Book of Elaborations: Essays

ISBN-13: 9780811210232 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 320 str.

Oscar Mandel

Opis

Like Montaigne before him, Mandel examines the antic mind of his fellowmen, vain, various, and ever-changing, and its peculiar manifestations in an age that embraces ugliness and irrationality. The sixteen pieces in the collection are, literally, 'elaborations' discursive, associative, meditative of the author's earlier lyric poems and epigrams, arranged by him to move in an easy way from the autobiographical to matters more general and abstract."