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portada On Reading
Type
Physical Book
Preface by
Publisher
Year
2011
Language
English
Pages
112
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
19.3 x 12.2 x 1.5 cm
Weight
0.16 kg.
ISBN
9781843916161
ISBN13
9781843916161
Edition No.
N/A

On Reading

Marcel Proust (Author) · John Ruskin (Author) · Eric Karpeles (Preface by) · Hesperus Press · Paperback

On Reading - Marcel Proust

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Synopsis "On Reading"

"To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them." Reading was, for Marcel Proust, more than the pursuit of knowledge: a truly spiritual activity, it was a means of transforming and transcending the self. By reading great authors, he contends, we not only learn of great ideas, but are enriched by the fruits of the world's most inspirational minds.
Marcel Proust
  (Author)
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(1871-1922) Novelista, ensayista y crítico francés. Es uno de los escritores cruciales de la literatura moderna. Nació en París en el seno de una familia adinerada y abandonó pronto sus estudios de Derecho para relacionarse con la sociedad elegante de París y dedicarse a escribir. Proust, aquejado de asma desde la infancia y convertido en un enfermo crónico, pasó el resto de su vida recluido, sin salir prácticamente nunca de la habitación revestida de corcho donde escribió su obra maestra: En busca del tiempo perdido, la que está reconocida sin discusión como una de las más importantes de la literatura moderna, influenciando tanto en el campo de la literatura como en el de la filosofía y la teoría del arte. Falleció de neumonía en París un 18 de noviembre de 1922.
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