The egoist

Description

" Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing. Credulity is not wooed through the impressionable senses; nor have we recourse to the small circular glow of the watchmaker's eye to raise in bright relief minutest grains of evidence for the routing of incredulity. The Comic Spirit conceives a definite situation for a number of characters, and rejects all accessories in the exclusive pursuit of them and their speech. For being a spirit, he hunts the spirit in men; vision and ardour constitute his merit; he has not a thought of persuading you to believe in him. Follow and you will see. But there is a question of the value of a run at his heels. Now the world is possessed of a certain big book, the biggest book on earth; that might indeed be called the Book of Earth; whose title is the Book of Egoism, and it is a book full of the world's wisdom. So full of it, and of such dimensions is this book, in which the generations have written ever since they took to writing, that to be profitable to us the Book needs a powerful compression."

Détails

Auteur: George Meredith

Editeur: Culturea

Format: Broché

Presentation: Broché

Date de parution: 25 Juin 2023

Nombre de pages: 424

Dimensions: 14,8 x 21 x 2,3

Prix publique: 23,00 €

Information complémentaires

Classification: Littérature générale > Romans > Romans francophones

Code Classification: 3435 > 3442 > 3443

EAN-13: 9791041817979