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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Voyage Around My Room
Author: MAISTRE XAVIER DE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 21/03/2016
Imprint: NEW DIRECTIONS
Price: $20.95
Publishing status: Active
In 1790, while serving in the Piedmontese army, the French aristocrat Xavier de Maistre (1763-1852) was punished for dueling and placed under house arrest for forty-two days. The result was a discursive, mischievous memoir Voyage Around My Room, and its sequel, Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room. Admired by Nietzsche and Machado de Assis, Ossian and Susan Sontag, this classic book proves that sitting on the living-room sofa can be as fascinating as crossing the Alps or paddling up the Amazon. In addition to the Voyage and Expedition, this edition also includes the dialogue “The Leper of the City of Aosta,” a preface by Xavier’s better-known older brother (the royalist philosopher Joseph de Maistre), and an introduction by Richard Howard.
ISBN: 9780811222105
Weight: 230g
Dimension: 203mm X 127mm
Pages: 244