Markings
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the intersection of politics and the sacred, Markings stands as one of the most extraordinary spiritual documents of the twentieth century — a private diary kept in secret by Dag Hammarskjöld, the Swedish statesman and second Secretary-General of the United Nations, and published posthumously after his death in a plane crash in 1961. Spanning nearly four decades, from 1925 to the final weeks before his death, the journal chronicles an intensely personal inner life: an unflinching examination of faith, sacrifice, solitude, and the relentless moral demands of public service. Written with the spare, meditative precision of a man who sought to reconcile the burdens of global leadership with a deeply mystical Christianity, these entries reveal a figure of remarkable intellectual and spiritual depth, drawing on the traditions of Christian mysticism, existentialist thought, and classical poetry. Translated with luminous care by W.H. Auden and Leif Sjöberg, and accompanied by a foreword in which Auden reflects on the singular nature of Hammarskjöld's inner world, Markings presents a rare portrait of greatness tested in solitude. Its themes — duty, integrity, the renunciation of ego, and the search for meaning amid immense responsibility — resonate far beyond the biographical, speaking to anyone who has wrestled with the tension between the outer world and the life within. For those who believe great men leave no interior record, this volume offers a profound and humbling correction.
Author: Dag Hammarskjöld
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the intersection of politics and the sacred, Markings stands as one of the most extraordinary spiritual documents of the twentieth century — a private diary kept in secret by Dag Hammarskjöld, the Swedish statesman and second Secretary-General of the United Nations, and published posthumously after his death in a plane crash in 1961. Spanning nearly four decades, from 1925 to the final weeks before his death, the journal chronicles an intensely personal inner life: an unflinching examination of faith, sacrifice, solitude, and the relentless moral demands of public service. Written with the spare, meditative precision of a man who sought to reconcile the burdens of global leadership with a deeply mystical Christianity, these entries reveal a figure of remarkable intellectual and spiritual depth, drawing on the traditions of Christian mysticism, existentialist thought, and classical poetry. Translated with luminous care by W.H. Auden and Leif Sjöberg, and accompanied by a foreword in which Auden reflects on the singular nature of Hammarskjöld's inner world, Markings presents a rare portrait of greatness tested in solitude. Its themes — duty, integrity, the renunciation of ego, and the search for meaning amid immense responsibility — resonate far beyond the biographical, speaking to anyone who has wrestled with the tension between the outer world and the life within. For those who believe great men leave no interior record, this volume offers a profound and humbling correction.