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Musings on mortality : from Tolstoy to Primo Levi
- Title
- Musings on mortality : from Tolstoy to Primo Levi / Victor Brombert.
- Author
- Brombert, Victor, 1923-
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 13-6141 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 188 pages : illustration; 23 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue : "To negate nothingness" -- Tolstoy : "Caius is mortal" -- Thomas Mann and the lure of the abyss -- Kafka : the death journey in the everlasting present -- Virginia Woolf : "Death is the enemy" -- Albert Camus : the endless defeat -- Georgio Bassani : "Even objects die" -- J.M. Coetzee and the scandal of death -- Primo Levi : the flawed design.
- Call Number
- JFD 13-6141
- ISBN
- 9780226062358
- 022606235X
- LCCN
- 2013003819
- OCLC
- 2013003819
- Author
- Brombert, Victor, 1923- author.
- Title
- Musings on mortality : from Tolstoy to Primo Levi / Victor Brombert.
- Publisher
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 13-6141