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BL
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| Record Number
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581533
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b410752
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| Main Entry
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Brombert, Victor,1923-
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| Title & Author
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Musings on mortality : : from Tolstoy to Primo Levi /\ Victor Brombert
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| Page. NO
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188 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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9780226062358 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
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: 022606235X (hardcover : alkaline paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index
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| Contents
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Prologue : "To negate nothingness" -- Tolstoy : "Caius is mortal" -- Thomas Mann and the lure of the abyss -- Kafka : the death journey in the everlasting present -- Virginia Woolf : "Death is the enemy" -- Albert Camus : the endless defeat -- Georgio Bassani : "Even objects die" -- J.M. Coetzee and the scandal of death -- Primo Levi : the flawed design
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| Abstract
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Drawing deeply from the well of Bromber's own experience, Musings on Mortality is more than mere literary criticism: it is a moving and elegant book for all to learn and live by
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| Subject
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Mortality in literature
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Death in literature
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| Dewey Classification
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809/.933548
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| LC Classification
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PN56.D4B75 2013
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