Xavier De Maistre: A Journey Around My Room and a Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room, Kartoniert / Broschiert
A Journey Around My Room and a Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room
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- Translation:
- Andrew Brown
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury USA, 05/2013
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781847493088
- Item number:
- 2417041
- Weight:
- 156 g
- Format:
- 198 x 126 mm
- Thickness:
- 27 mm
- Release date:
- 23.5.2013
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
Finding himself locked in his room for six weeks, a young officer journeys around his room in his imagination, using the various objects it contains as inspiration for a delightful parody of contemporary travel-writing and an exercise in Sternean picaresque, and humorously demonstrating what one can explore without having set off to exotic locations. Accompanied in this volume by its equally superb sequel, 'Nocturnal Expedition around my Room', in which a similar voyage is made at night several years later, 'A Journey around My Room' is a masterly and innovative piece of writing, which was immensely popular in its time and would later influence Victor Hugo and Marcel Proust, among others.
Biography (Andrew Brown)
Andrew Brown, Anfang vierzig, war bereits in jungen Jahren politisch aktiv, unter anderem in der United Democratic Front (UNF) und im Afrikanischen Nationalkongress (ANC), als dieser noch verboten war. Während seines Jurastudiums an der University of Cape wurde er wegen angeblicher Gewaltanwendung bei einer Konfrontation zwischen Polizei und Studenten mit Freiheitsentzug bestraft. Durch eine Berufung am Cape High Court wurde die Gefängnisstrafe abgewendet. Im selben High Court ist Brown inzwischen als Anwalt tätig. Als Polizeireservist hat Andrew Brown Einblick in die Arbeit der Polizei und die Motivation der Ermittler. Andrew Brown ist verheiratet und hat drei Kinder.More from Xavier De Maistre
Xavier De Maistre
A Journey Around My Room and a Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room
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