Voyage Around My Room

by Xavier de Maistre

Book Overview

In 1790, while serving in the Piedmontese army, the French aristocrat Xavier de Maistre (1763-1852) was punished for dueling and placed under house arrest for forty-two days. The result was a discursive, mischievous memoir Voyage Around My Room, and its sequel, Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room. Admired by Nietzsche and Machado de Assis, Ossian and Susan Sontag, this classic book proves that sitting on the living-room sofa can be as fascinating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811222101
• ISBN13: 9780811222105
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 7.9"