The Book of Elaborations Essays
, by Mandel, OscarNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780811210232 | 0811210235
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/17/1987
Like Montaigne before him, Mandel examines the antic mind of his fellowmen, vain, various, and ever-changing, and its peculiar manifestations in an age that embraces ugliness and irrationality. The sixteen pieces in the collection are, literally, 'elaborations''¬ ;discursive, associative, meditative'¬ ;of the author's earlier lyric poems and epigrams, arranged by him to move in an easy way from the autobiographical to matters more general and abstract.