Vanidad

Vanidad - Mario Rigoni Stern - Ai Trani Editores
Publisher name: 
Ai trani Editores
Year of publication: 
2017
Pages: 
92
Binding: 
Soft cover

"The history of vanity is the history of the world. Was not creation itself, in all its extension and in all senses of the word, an act of supreme, unfathomable vanity? ». Thus begins this precious book of aphorisms, which covers and illustrates the ambivalent appearances and the various appearances of vanity, understood as a desolate experience of nothingness and as an attempt, individual or collective, heroic or pathetic, to combat oblivion and to transcend weather. Facing the motley phenomenology of such a universal custom, Mario Andrea Rigoni composes a kind of inspired and penetrating "shipwreck breviary", in which, according to the highest tradition of aphoristic literature, the elegance of prose, the psychological finesse and wit sharpness. The author's gaze, lucid and disenchanted, reveals the heartbreaking abyss of the human condition, illuminating, at the same time, the jour...read more

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Book: Vanidad

ISBN: 9786079689049
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