Publication Date: June 30, 2005 Pages: 200 Translated from the French and with an introduction by Paul Auster.
The elusive French luminary Joseph Joubert is a great explorer of the mind’s open spaces. Edited and translated by Paul Auster, this selection from Joubert’s notebooks introduces a master of the enigmatic who seeks “to call everything by its true name� while asking us to “remember everything is double.� “Joubert speaks in whispers,� Auster writes. “One must draw very close to hear what he is saying.�
Publication Date: June 30, 2005
Pages: 200
Translated from the French and with an introduction by Paul Auster.
The elusive French luminary Joseph Joubert is a great explorer of the mind’s open spaces. Edited and translated by Paul Auster, this selection from Joubert’s notebooks introduces a master of the enigmatic who seeks “to call everything by its true name� while asking us to “remember everything is double.� “Joubert speaks in whispers,� Auster writes. “One must draw very close to hear what he is saying.�