Guillaume Laurens itibaren Paley Street, Maidenhead, Windsor and Maidenhead , UK

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2019-09-22 17:40

Yitik Yol TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Salon Yayınları

This series, "The Story of Civilization" by the brilliant and erudite Will Durant and his equally brilliant wife Ariel, is still one of the best series on world history ever written despite it's age. It's multidisciplinary approach to understanding history and insightful and articulate execution represent a time piece of the best ideals of Twentieth Century thought and writing. It's rare to read historical works from this time period that do not overwhelmingly evidence the heavy hand of personal and political prejudices that were widely held in that day and age. This is the life work of a pair of great humanitarian thinkers. Always in the avant garde of their field, their work requires relatively little substantive correction compared to other contemporaries after more than 40 years of ongoing historical research have passed. Their objective and well researched insight into history lead them to present a storyline that is still meaningful for readers of history today. Regardless of the issue of perfect coincidence with present day perceptions of historical accuracy, this text would still be readable, and valuably so, for any student of history for it's insight into the human condition as evidenced in the changing fortunes of statesmen, peoples, and nations through history. This is history as narrative the way that few are fluent enough to tell it. The voices of the two authors merge seamlessly to emerge as one voice with a dry wit and clear eyed wisdom that serve to inform and delight the reader and sometimes even made me laugh out loud. A fascinating classic series for the history buff. You won't regret the time and effort required to read this long series. It will beautifully flesh out your historical knowledge base and it's a real page turner. It will feel as if you sat beside the fire with an endlessly wise and funny storyteller on many successive nights so that he could tell you the history of the world. here's a quote from an article by Will Durant that explains his ideas about history in his own words: "History” said Henry Ford, “is bunk.” As one who has written history for twenty-five years, and studied it for forty-five, I should largely agree with the great engineer who put half the world on wheels. History as studied in schools – history as a dreary succession of dates and kings, of politics and wars, of the rise and fall of states – this kind of history is verily a weariness of the flesh, stale and flat and unprofitable. No wonder so few students in school are drawn to it; no wonder so few of us learn any lessons from the past. But history as man’s rise from savagery to civilization – history as the record of the lasting contributions made to man’s knowledge, wisdom, arts, morals, manners, skills – history as a laboratory rich in a hundred thousand experiments in economics, religion, literature, science, and government – history as our roots and our illumination, as the road by which we came and the only light that can clarify the present and guide us into the future – that kind of history is not “bunk;” it is, as Napoleon said on St. Helena, “the only true philosophy and the only true psychology.” Other studies may tell us how man might behave, or how he should behave; history tells us how he has behaved for six thousand years. One who knows that record is in large measure protected in advance against the delusions and disillusionments of his time. He has learned the limitations of human nature, and bears with equanimity the faults of his neighbors and the imperfections of states. He shares hopefully in the reforming enterprises of his age and people; but his heart does not break, nor his faith in life fade out, when he perceives how modest are the results, and how persistently man remains what he has been for sixty centuries, perhaps for a thousand generations. "We are choked with news, and starved of history". ~Will Durant

2019-09-22 22:40

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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Optimist Yayın Dağıtım

One of the first things I did after coming back home from my summer trip, is grabbing Ernesto Sabato's Tunnel for the second time. I had first read it in early 2008. It was in my head throughout the summer. I felt that I have missed the book and I need to re-read it. By it, I mean its mood, its characters, its amiable yet aggressive narrative style. The Tunnel is simply a great novella. It talks about one of the main reasons behind literary production: human loneliness and the search for a connection with the eternal. The main character is a painter, Juan Pablo Castel, who gets obsessed with one of his gallery's visitors, Maria. This obsession with Maria takes up most of the pages and is tiring for us readers, yet so intense that it becomes contagious. Life or existence to Juan Pablo is like Maria, and he doesn't seem to understand it. In one instant he is laying his head on her lap by the shore "like a baby." In another, he is violently grabbing her arm to get her to confess about something that his doubt created. And, finally, in another instance he murders her. (dont worry this is not a spoiler, it is actually the first line of this book.) This crazy relationship and this obsession is all in Juan Pablo's head and heart and in his confusion. It is the tunnel that he has created or was born into. A tunnel that is parallel to everything and never seems to intersect with anything but his loneliness. With all this being said, the main attraction of the novella, for me, is its impeccable enthusiasm. Imagine, for example, Albert Camus' The Stranger, Meursault, but with all the enthusiasm. I can say that Sabato's Juan Pablo Castel is Camus' Meursault but in the opposite direction, with an overdose of enthusiasm towards his loneliness and confusion instead of Meursault's lethal apathy. After reading this book for the second time, I feel energized, enthusiastic, and in the same time melancholic. The exact feelings that I wanted to remind myself of.

Okuyucu Guillaume Laurens itibaren Paley Street, Maidenhead, Windsor and Maidenhead , UK

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