The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World
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2011
Black Inc. (Verlag)
978-1-86395-546-1 (ISBN)
Black Inc. (Verlag)
978-1-86395-546-1 (ISBN)
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What Makes For a Happy Life? Amid the constant chatter of today's world, with its 24-hour news cycles, Twitter and mobile communications, David Malouf returns to the ancient question of what makes us happy. With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about contentment and the self. In considering the happy life - what it is, and what makes it possible - he returns to the 'highest wisdom' of the classics, looks at how, thanks to Thomas Jefferson's way with words, happiness became a 'right,' and contrasts joy in the flesh, as depicted by Rubens and Rembrandt, with the way we view our bodies today. In a world become ever larger and more impersonal, Malouf finds happiness in an unlikely place. This is a book to savour and reflect upon by one of Australia's greatest novelists. 'A rewarding reflection on human restlessness and the need for limits.' The Age 'Entertaining and insightful.' The Sydney Morning Herald 'A wonderful ...reflection on happiness in the Western tradition.' The Canberra Times
David Malouf is the internationally acclaimed author of novels including The Great World (winner of the Commonwealth Writers' prize and the Prix Femina Etranger), Remembering Babylon (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), An Imaginary Life, Conversations at Curlow Creek, Dream Stuff ('These stories are pearls' Spectator), Every Move You Make ('Rare and luminous talent' Guardian), his autobiographical classic 12 Edmondstone Street and Ransom. His Collected Stories won the 2008 Australia-Asia Literary Award. In 2008 Malouf was the Scottish Arts' Council Muriel Spark International Fellow. He was born in 1934 and was brought up in Brisbane.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.10.2011 |
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Verlagsort | Melbourne |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 128 x 199 mm |
Gewicht | 144 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-86395-546-1 / 1863955461 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-86395-546-1 / 9781863955461 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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