Thoughts In A Dry Season: A Miscellany
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
In the tradition of the great aphorists — Montaigne, Pascal, La Rochefoucauld — Gerald Brenan's Thoughts in a Dry Season presents a glittering miscellany of observations on life, love, religion, death, and the human condition. Culled from a lifetime of wide reading and hard-won personal experience, the collection distils Brenan's restless, peripatetic intelligence into short, incisive fragments that reward slow, contemplative reading. Brenan, best known for his richly detailed portraits of Spanish life and culture, here turns his penetrating gaze inward, producing a work of compressed wisdom that stands as a testament to a singular literary mind. Each aphorism and reflection illustrates his characteristic blend of Mediterranean clarity and Anglo-Irish wit — spare, unsentimental, and quietly devastating. For those who treasure the art of the perfectly weighted sentence, this volume leaves one wondering what further truths Brenan might have kept back.
Author: Gerald Brenan
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, Cambridge University Press
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
In the tradition of the great aphorists — Montaigne, Pascal, La Rochefoucauld — Gerald Brenan's Thoughts in a Dry Season presents a glittering miscellany of observations on life, love, religion, death, and the human condition. Culled from a lifetime of wide reading and hard-won personal experience, the collection distils Brenan's restless, peripatetic intelligence into short, incisive fragments that reward slow, contemplative reading. Brenan, best known for his richly detailed portraits of Spanish life and culture, here turns his penetrating gaze inward, producing a work of compressed wisdom that stands as a testament to a singular literary mind. Each aphorism and reflection illustrates his characteristic blend of Mediterranean clarity and Anglo-Irish wit — spare, unsentimental, and quietly devastating. For those who treasure the art of the perfectly weighted sentence, this volume leaves one wondering what further truths Brenan might have kept back.