INTRODUCTION / TRANSLATION / NOTES BY SESIL IGGLESEE MARGELLO
Nostalgia: a Greek invention, but a Swiss word! The French philosopher and classical philologist Barbara Cassin pens a captivating essay on the "suffocating and sweet feeling" of nostalgia and traces, accompanied by Odysseus, Aeneas, and Arendt, the relationship of people with time, their homeland, and their languages, offering a generous lesson in humanity.
"Rooting and uprooting: this is what nostalgia is."
Manufacturer
- Author
- Barbara Cassin
- Publisher
- Melani
- Language
- -
- Subtitle
- So when is one home?
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 144
- Release Date
- 26/06/2015
- Publication Date
- 2015
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789605910150
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