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The Eighth Day: Selected Writings of Christian Bobin
Christian Bobin
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Christian Bobin is one of the most prolific and best-selling inspirational writers in France. His ‘lyric essays’, neither prose nor poetry, utilise a limited vocabulary manipulated with the precision of a watchmaker. Bobin often obtains his effects through startling juxtapositions of the ordinary, aimed straight at the heart and not without the intention of drawing blood. Prevalent themes in his work include the natural world, the perspectives of the very old and the very young, and the distilled wisdom of his contemplative Catholic faith. A lifelong sufferer from ‘persuasive melancholy’, Bobin mines the narrow seam of joy and wonder ... Read more
Christian Bobin is one of the most prolific and best-selling inspirational writers in France. His ‘lyric essays’, neither prose nor poetry, utilise a limited vocabulary manipulated with the precision of a watchmaker. Bobin often obtains his effects through startling juxtapositions of the ordinary, aimed straight at the heart and not without the intention of drawing blood. Prevalent themes in his work include the natural world, the perspectives of the very old and the very young, and the distilled wisdom of his contemplative Catholic faith. A lifelong sufferer from ‘persuasive melancholy’, Bobin mines the narrow seam of joy and wonder ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Darton Longman And Todd Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780232531718
SKU
V9780232531718
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99-2
About Christian Bobin
Christian Bobin is the author of more than 50 books in French, several of them best-sellers, and he is the winner of France's 1993 Grand Prix Catholique de Litterature. Pauline Matarasso, compiler and translator, has written and translated many works including three Penguin Classics.
Reviews for The Eighth Day: Selected Writings of Christian Bobin
'Luminously translated ... Sometimes Bobin sounds like a Christian cousin of Kafka.’
Paul Keegan
former editor Faber Poetry and Penguin Classics
‘Bobin is a spiritual guide of a rare sort.’
Martin Laird
author of Into The Silent Land
‘Bobin’s descriptions of the intricate reality of love, grief and joy are unsurpassed in modern writing.’ ... Read more
Paul Keegan
former editor Faber Poetry and Penguin Classics
‘Bobin is a spiritual guide of a rare sort.’
Martin Laird
author of Into The Silent Land
‘Bobin’s descriptions of the intricate reality of love, grief and joy are unsurpassed in modern writing.’ ... Read more