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Passions
Contributor(s): Leopardi, Giacomo (Author), Parks, Tim (Translator)
ISBN: 0300186339     ISBN-13: 9780300186338
Publisher: Yale University Press
OUR PRICE:   $64.35  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | European - Italian
- Literary Collections | Letters
- Literary Collections | Essays
Dewey: 858
LCCN: 2014006319
Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
Physical Information: 0.83" H x 5.4" W x 8.03" (0.74 lbs) 232 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Selections from Leopardi's prose masterwork, Zibaldone, one of the great intellectual diaries in European literature, expertly translated by Tim Parks

Revenge--Revenge is so sweet one often wishes to be insulted so as to be able to take revenge, and I don't mean just by an old enemy, but anyone, or even (especially when in a really bad mood) by a friend.--from Passions

The extraordinary quality of Giacomo Leopardi's writing and the innovative nature of his thought were never fully recognized in his lifetime. Zibaldone, his 4,500-page intellectual diary--a vast collection of thoughts on philosophy, civilization, literary criticism, linguistics, humankind and its vanities, and other varied topics--remained unpublished until more than a half-century after his death. But shortly before he died, Leopardi began to organize a small, thematic collection of his writings in an attempt to give structure and system to his philosophical musings. Now freshly translated into English by master translator, novelist, and critic Tim Parks, Leopardi's Passions presents 164 entries reflecting the full breadth of human passion. The volume offers a fascinating introduction to Leopardi's arguments and insights, as well as a glimpse of the concerns of thinkers to come, among them Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Wittgenstein, Gadda, and Beckett.