( 全部 146 条) 热门 / 最新 / 好友 光荣与梦想 2007-11-13 12:03:14 上海人民出版社2007版 https://americanmind.orgLet me give myself up entirely to the sweetness of conversing with my soul, since that is the only thing men cannot take away from me…The leisurely moments of my daily walks have often been filled with contemplation which I regret having forgotten. A man, stuck in Oblivion, wanders around near vertiginous cliffs. I had been reading in one of the broadsheets that morning how Sebald had agreed to give only one interview to publicise his latest project. I am the managing editor for The Claremont Institute's "The American Mind." You can only set your username once.Of course, what occurred between 1965 and 1996 for Sebald was his own exile: it was following the revelations of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials in the summer of the year that Sebald visited the island (trials he witnessed firsthand, and which revealed to him the extent of his parents' generation's complicity in the Holocaust), and it was following this visit that the young academic took steps that led to his eventual domicile on another island, Britain, where he spent the next three decades at the University of East Anglia.
It is a technique we are familiar with in Sebald's fiction: the author is very much present in these lines, and yet simultaneously absent.
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The book's summary: "The struggle between Rousseau's yearning for solitude and his need for society is the central theme of the Reveries. At the time of his death in a car crash aged 57, WG Sebald was widely regarded as one of the world's greatest writers. Previous elements in this group included The Confessions and Dialogues: Rousseau, Judge of Jean … First published posthumously in 1782 from an unfinished manuscript, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker continues Rousseau's exploration of the soul in the form of a final meditation on self-understanding and isolation. Rousseau, J.-J. Reveries of the Solitary Walker (French: Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire) is an unfinished book by Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, written between 1776 and 1778.It was the last of a number of works composed toward the end of his life which were deeply autobiographical in nature. Other articles where The Reveries of a Solitary Walker is discussed: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The last decade: …Rêveries du promeneur solitaire (1782; Reveries of the Solitary Walker), one of the most moving of his books, in which the intense passion of his earlier writings gives way to a gentle lyricism and serenity. The reveries of a solitary walker, botanical writings and letter to Franquières (translated and annotated by Charles, Butterworth , Alexandra, Cook and Terence, E. Marshall , edited by Christopher Kelly). This is in keeping with Sebald's themes of exile and misappropriation, because, while he may be writing about another speculative thinker who lived 200 years before, as ever he is attempting to discover the hidden connections that bind human thought both to itself, and to the wider world.One never knows how to classify his books. The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau: With The Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
"The Reveries describe "the great French writer's sense of isolation and alienation from a world which he felt had rejected his work."
Before you post, we’d like to thank you for joining the debate - we’re glad you’ve chosen to participate and we value your opinions and experiences.Please choose your username under which you would like all your comments to show up. Under the gravity of that silvered moustache, he was more English than the English, more alien.Sebald goes on to recount his own eventual landfall on the island in 1996, then employs this – the parenthetic of his own life – to consider the strange denouement and afterlife of the pre-eminent ideologue of the French revolution.
Crushed by recurrent memories, he wallows in the depths of loneliness and infinite sadness.
Nearing the end of his life, persecuted by society and …