| A Journey Around My Room and a Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room Contributor(s): Maistre, Xavier De (Author), De Botton, Alain (Foreword by), Brown, Andrew (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1847493084 ISBN-13: 9781847493088 Publisher: Alma Books OUR PRICE: $10.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Alma Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.35 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Finding himself locked in his room for six weeks, a young officer journeys around his room in his imagination, using the various objects it contains as inspiration for a delightful parody of contemporary travel-writing and an exercise in Sternean picaresque, and humorously demonstrating what one can explore without having set off to exotic locations. Accompanied in this volume by its equally superb sequel, 'Nocturnal Expedition around my Room', in which a similar voyage is made at night several years later, 'A Journey around My Room' is a masterly and innovative piece of writing, which was immensely popular in its time and would later influence Victor Hugo and Marcel Proust, among others. |
Contributor Bio(s): Brown, Andrew: - ANDREW BROWN is an author, a lawyer, and a volunteer police officer who lives in Cape Town, South Africa. He won the Sunday Times Fiction Prize for Coldsleep Lullaby, and his work has also been shortlisted for the Alan Paton Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa Region). He is married and has three children. |