Journey To The Ends Of Time: Volume I: Lost In The Dark Wood
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In a work of extraordinary scope and singular imaginative vision, Journey to the Ends of Time: Volume I — Lost in the Dark Wood presents Sacheverell Sitwell at his most ambitious, weaving together autobiography, cultural meditation, and profound philosophical reflection into a single, labyrinthine odyssey. Sitwell, one of the most eclectic and prolific minds of twentieth-century British letters, chronicles a lifetime of aesthetic experience — drawing from art, music, architecture, and memory — as he navigates the shadowed corridors of human consciousness and the passage of time itself. This first volume establishes the grand design of a work that is simultaneously a memoir and an elegy, a celebration of beauty and a reckoning with mortality. Sitwell's prose, luminous and richly allusive, argues that the arts are not mere ornament but the very architecture of civilised life, and his command of detail — from Baroque churches to the fleeting sensation of a recalled melody — transforms each page into a quietly astonishing act of remembrance. For readers who savour the essayistic tradition of Ruskin or the cultural grandeur of Osbert Sitwell's own memoirs, this volume is an invitation into a world of rarefied sensibility — one that leaves the reader wondering what further revelations await in the volumes still to come.
Author: Sacheverell Sitwell
Format: Hardback
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In a work of extraordinary scope and singular imaginative vision, Journey to the Ends of Time: Volume I — Lost in the Dark Wood presents Sacheverell Sitwell at his most ambitious, weaving together autobiography, cultural meditation, and profound philosophical reflection into a single, labyrinthine odyssey. Sitwell, one of the most eclectic and prolific minds of twentieth-century British letters, chronicles a lifetime of aesthetic experience — drawing from art, music, architecture, and memory — as he navigates the shadowed corridors of human consciousness and the passage of time itself. This first volume establishes the grand design of a work that is simultaneously a memoir and an elegy, a celebration of beauty and a reckoning with mortality. Sitwell's prose, luminous and richly allusive, argues that the arts are not mere ornament but the very architecture of civilised life, and his command of detail — from Baroque churches to the fleeting sensation of a recalled melody — transforms each page into a quietly astonishing act of remembrance. For readers who savour the essayistic tradition of Ruskin or the cultural grandeur of Osbert Sitwell's own memoirs, this volume is an invitation into a world of rarefied sensibility — one that leaves the reader wondering what further revelations await in the volumes still to come.