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A digressive, funny, philosophical late-18th-century work told by a man confined to his room: though he interacts occasionally with his manservant and his dog, one could argue that the narrator’s Soul (an entity he refers to as ‘she’) and Animal natures are the biggest presences in the room. The debt to ’s is obvious, even without the narrator’s mention of Uncle Toby. Added on 1/24/17 after meeting with my friend for our little b A digressive, funny, philosophical late-18th-century work told by a man confined to his room: though he interacts occasionally with his manservant and his dog, one could argue that the narrator’s Soul (an entity he refers to as ‘she’) and Animal natures are the biggest presences in the room.
The debt to ’s is obvious, even without the narrator’s mention of Uncle Toby. Added on 1/24/17 after meeting with my friend for our little book 'club' of two: She made the point that it's likely that Soul is female because all French nouns have a gender.
'Voyage Around My Room' is the perfect book to read when in bed with a cold. In another life, I would like to list my favorite books to read in bed while sick. This would be in the top ten for sure. The author, Xavier de Maistre, was busted for dueling and sentenced to house arrest for 42 days. What came out of that self-imprisonment is this book.
It borders on a Georges Perec or Alain Robbe-Grillet type of fiction, but it was written in 1790. Xavier comments on the paintings and furniture in hi 'Voyage Around My Room' is the perfect book to read when in bed with a cold. In another life, I would like to list my favorite books to read in bed while sick. This would be in the top ten for sure. The author, Xavier de Maistre, was busted for dueling and sentenced to house arrest for 42 days. What came out of that self-imprisonment is this book.
It borders on a Georges Perec or Alain Robbe-Grillet type of fiction, but it was written in 1790. Xavier comments on the paintings and furniture in his room. In essence, time has stopped. It can even be a critique of at then modern living. The sensibility behind this book is timeless. It's work from the past but seems very present. The author reflects on his life through his landscape, which is the room.
I would recommend writers to read this book, in the same sense one can read Raymond Queneau's 'Exercises in Writing' or Joe Brainard's 'I Remember.' It reminds me that one is never truly shut off from the world when they have pen and paper.
Not more than a moment ago I experienced paroxysms of fear: I could not recall the whereabouts of this book. It's a pet theory of mine that no matter how much you read, you will only be able to truly know a handful of works in one lifetime. Voyage is such a work in my life. For anyone with anchorite tendencies this is a magnum opus and will touch you to the quick.
The narrative is anything but to the point - but that's the point! Without digression life is flavorless and, 'Why should the soul Not more than a moment ago I experienced paroxysms of fear: I could not recall the whereabouts of this book. It's a pet theory of mine that no matter how much you read, you will only be able to truly know a handful of works in one lifetime. Voyage is such a work in my life. For anyone with anchorite tendencies this is a magnum opus and will touch you to the quick. The narrative is anything but to the point - but that's the point!
Without digression life is flavorless and, 'Why should the soul refuse any of the delights scattered along the difficult path of life?' Fans of Rabelais, Cervantes, Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne, and Thomas de Quincy will wonder how this enchanting book remains largely overlooked today. Like these elastic authors, de Maistre lacks no breadth of reason, passion, or humor even when discoursing on seemingly trivial matters. De Maistre is a minister of minutiae, and this is his manifesto.
Necessary reading for all serious sedentary voyagers. I was introduced to this book through reading de Botton's Art of travel, de Botton has also written the foreword so it links well. This is such a random book I was astonished to find it in a normal bookshop, but I did, and the rest is history. The reason why this book is so good is due to the importance of the central idea, this idea is self evident from the title.
To stretch out a narrative journey from his bed to the window and the view outside is quite an achievement, especially as this journe I was introduced to this book through reading de Botton's Art of travel, de Botton has also written the foreword so it links well. This is such a random book I was astonished to find it in a normal bookshop, but I did, and the rest is history. The reason why this book is so good is due to the importance of the central idea, this idea is self evident from the title. To stretch out a narrative journey from his bed to the window and the view outside is quite an achievement, especially as this journey is entertaining and interesting in equal measure. This proves the most important aspect of travel literature, it doesn't matter where you go, it's what you do, how you do it and what you learn from it. If you apply the spirit of adventure to a trip to the supermarket it can be more important than a round the world trip. My only problem with the book were elements of context, it was written quite some time ago so I found some of the references unfamiliar.
If you enjoy this book try to get hold of some of the other Hesperus Classics they specialize in publishing overlooked gems. He managed to create such a weird stuff with such a few words. And that's an accomplishment. The story did give me a positive thought-that you can turn a prison into a heaven by changing your perception of it. But I don't think he would have written all these things about that room had he resided in it for too long a time.
And the thing about mirror. That was real good. To see oneself and soul and the other. I do not how the materialists would respond to that but since I am Why five.? He managed to create such a weird stuff with such a few words. And that's an accomplishment.
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The story did give me a positive thought-that you can turn a prison into a heaven by changing your perception of it. But I don't think he would have written all these things about that room had he resided in it for too long a time. And the thing about mirror. That was real good. To see oneself and soul and the other. I do not how the materialists would respond to that but since I am not one,I can say that it was brilliant.
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It seems I have written this review different from the way I usually write. But that's how I really feel.!! I just browsed the ratings other readers gave to this book and saw mixed ratings and reviews,like it is for almost every book(except those which everybody wholeheartedly put under trash). I am going to re-read this book. I really want to see if I missed something. May be an apple will fall on my head during the next read.
Long before Georges Perec and company, an imprisoned French official wrote a treatise describing his room as the world, and his adventures therein. It's the sort of thing I would doubtless think up if I was under house arrest. But what I particularly loved about it was that it was the sort of thing that Calvino or Robbe-Grillet or Eco would have thought up, the Savoyard militarist entering worlds of the imagination through mundane objects, and perhaps using that as a metaphor for some theme or t Long before Georges Perec and company, an imprisoned French official wrote a treatise describing his room as the world, and his adventures therein.
It's the sort of thing I would doubtless think up if I was under house arrest. But what I particularly loved about it was that it was the sort of thing that Calvino or Robbe-Grillet or Eco would have thought up, the Savoyard militarist entering worlds of the imagination through mundane objects, and perhaps using that as a metaphor for some theme or turning point in the history of ideas, and I would have enjoyed it, heaps. But the fact that it's the genuine article.
Curiosity level: very very entertaining! Wish it was longer! 'Was it this to punish me that they confined me to my room?
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One might as well exile a mouse to a granary.' -p.78 Xavier de Maistre, having found guilty of duelling, is confined to his room for 42 days. While most of us might start chewing off our nails (w/o WiFi), he dreams up worlds. The bed, the mirror, the desk - all come alive in animation. Breathing out stories.
Xavier essentially wants to tell the reader this: You don't need your Curiosity level: very very entertaining! Wish it was longer! 'Was it this to punish me that they confined me to my room?
One might as well exile a mouse to a granary.' -p.78 Xavier de Maistre, having found guilty of duelling, is confined to his room for 42 days. While most of us might start chewing off our nails (w/o WiFi), he dreams up worlds. The bed, the mirror, the desk - all come alive in animation. Breathing out stories. Xavier essentially wants to tell the reader this: You don't need your passport, luggage or money for an adventure!
You can organise a voyage around your room! Written in a deadpan yet enthusiastic humour-style, this book reminds me of a hilarious George Orwell and Umberto Eco combo:) 'They may have forbidden me to travel through a city, but they left me the entire universe: infinity and eternity are at my command.' P.s he also wrote a part 2: nocturnal expeditions around my room. Hilarious non-fiction (yet parody) travelogue. I read the Attwell translation available for free at the Internet Archive: 'What more glorious than to open for oneself a new career-to appear suddenly before the learned world with a book of discoveries in one's hand, like an unlooked-for comet blazing in the empyrean! No longer will I keep my book in obscurity. Behold it, gentlemen; read it!
I have undertaken and performed a forty-two days' journey round my room. The interesting observations I ha Hilarious non-fiction (yet parody) travelogue.
I read the Attwell translation available for free at the Internet Archive: 'What more glorious than to open for oneself a new career-to appear suddenly before the learned world with a book of discoveries in one's hand, like an unlooked-for comet blazing in the empyrean! No longer will I keep my book in obscurity.
Behold it, gentlemen; read it! I have undertaken and performed a forty-two days' journey round my room. The interesting observations I have made, and the constant pleasure I have experienced all along the road, made me wish to publish my travels.' To my mind, this translation conveys a sort of tongue-in-cheek bombastic tone much better than the translation available in print. I didn't expect to like this book so maybe it was a self-fulfilling prophecy, or maybe I'm just out of touch with writing from other centuries, but I found the 18th- and 19th-century ruminations of this French count/soldier pompous and dull - though not without humor.
He clearly fancied himself a great philosopher, with thoughts and revelations he was convinced were unique. The edition I read contained 'Voyage Around My Room' (1794), 'Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room' (1825), and 'The Leper I didn't expect to like this book so maybe it was a self-fulfilling prophecy, or maybe I'm just out of touch with writing from other centuries, but I found the 18th- and 19th-century ruminations of this French count/soldier pompous and dull - though not without humor. He clearly fancied himself a great philosopher, with thoughts and revelations he was convinced were unique. The edition I read contained 'Voyage Around My Room' (1794), 'Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room' (1825), and 'The Leper of the City of Aosta' (1811). I actually quite enjoyed the leper story, which was the shortest of the bunch, but could have done without the 'voyages' in which the author imparts his self-proclaimed 'brilliant logic' and honors the reader by 'unveiling such truths to humanity.' This book fulfilled a requirement for the letter 'X' in an alphabet-based reading challenge.
I probably would have abandoned it otherwise, though I'm glad I persevered and read the leper story. I'll admit to skipping the short 'preface' by the author's brother that was included at the end.