Journey to the Edge of Life

Journey to the Edge of LifeA writer finds solitude and salvation tracing the lives and deaths of three of her literary lights in a haunted and lyrical travelogue from NBCC Award winner Tezer zl. An unnamed writer embarks on an obsessive journey through Europe, drawn to the gravesites of her literary idols Cesare Pavese, Italo Svevo, Franz Kafka putting her life, her writing, and her politics in conversation with theirs. Untethered and spirit like herself, she moves among

Written in English while he was living in Boston

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they were compelled to embrace Westminster-style constitutional monarchy and their role became largely symbolic

and honesty

Engaging a variety of disciplinary and intellectual perspectives

but a dominant organizational principle of modern society

The Myth of Sisyphus argues for an acceptance of reality that encompasses revolt

and the arts joined him in an in-depth consideration of the six great ideas that are the subject of this book: Truth

from Marcus Aurelius

exploring how it could offer us a path to a truly sustainable

A monumental literary event

Highly readable