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Voyage Around My Room
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By Xavier de Maistre, Stephen Sartarelli (Translator), Richard Howard (Introduction), Joseph de Maistre (Preface by)
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A lively and utterly singular travelogue of the intricate curiosities that are directly within one’s own reach
In 1790, while serving in the Piedmontese army, the French aristocrat Xavier de Maistre (1763–1852) was punished for dueling and placed under house arrest for forty-two days. The result was a discursive, mischievous memoir Voyage Around My Room, and its sequel, Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room. Admired by Nietzsche and Machado de Assis, Ossian and Susan Sontag, this classic book ...