A Journey Around My Room
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Author | : Xavier de Maistre |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : French fiction |
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In 1790, Xavier de Maistre was 27 years old, and a soldier in the army of the Sardinian Kingdom, which covered swathes of modern-day Northern Italy and Southern France. He was placed under house-arrest in Turin for fighting an illegal duel. It was during the 42 days of his confinement here that he wrote the manuscript that would become Voyage autour de ma chambre. Inspired by the works of Laurence Sterne, with their digressive and colloquial style, de Maistre decided to make the most of his sentence by recording an exploration of the room as a travel journal. de Maistre’s book imbues the tour of his chamber with great mythology and grand scale. As he wanders the few steps that it takes to circumnavigate the space, his mind spins off into the ether. It parodies the travel journals of the eighteenth-century (such as A Voyage Around the World by Louis de Bougainville, 1771), and could be read today as an early take on the modern vogue for “psychogeography” — each tiny thing that he encounters sends de Maistre into rhapsodies, and mundane journeys become magnificent voyages.
Author | : Xavier De Maistre |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
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ISBN | : 9781016115094 |
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Author | : Xavier de Maistre |
Publisher | : Hersperus Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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What do you do when you find yourself imprisoned in your room for 6 weeks? Xavier de Maistre, a 27-year-old Frenchman found himself in this uneasy situation when he was arrested in Turin after a duel, in the Spring of 1790. But with only a butler and a dog for company, Xavier de Maistre managed to fill his time by embarking on a journey around his bedroom, later writing an account of what he had seen. Whether venturing from his bed to his sofa, or even to his mirror, he wears his "traveling outfit”--his favorite pink and blue pajamas. Out of his forced reclusion comes a captivating fantasy--a novel take on travel literature that would inspire many later writers, including Marcel Proust. This edition also contains de Maistre’s A Nocturnal Expedition around My Room. Xavier de Maistre was a military man, who supplemented his army career with short works of fiction.
Author | : Xavier de Maistre |
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Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1901 |
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Author | : Emma Donoghue |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 101 |
Release | : 2017-05-07 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 178682177X |
Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room.
Author | : Xavier de Maistre |
Publisher | : Alma Classics |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-05-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781847493088 |
Finding himself locked in his room for six weeks, a young officer journeys around his room in his imagination, using the various objects it contains as inspiration for a delightful parody of contemporary travel-writing and an exercise in Sternean picaresque, and humorously demonstrating what one can explore without having set off to exotic locations. Accompanied in this volume by its equally superb sequel, 'Nocturnal Expedition around my Room', in which a similar voyage is made at night several years later, 'A Journey around My Room' is a masterly and innovative piece of writing, which was immensely popular in its time and would later influence Victor Hugo and Marcel Proust, among others.
Author | : Xavier De Maistre |
Publisher | : Alma Books |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0714546445 |
Finding himself locked in his room for six weeks, a young officer uses his imagination to travel around his room, using the various objects it contains as inspiration for a delightful parody of contemporary travel-writing and exercise in Sternean picaresque, and humorously demonstrating what one can explore without having to travel to exotic locations. Contains a foreword by Alain de Botton
Author | : Xavier de Maistre |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1829 |
Genre | : French fiction |
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Author | : Xavier De Maistre |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2014-08-07 |
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ISBN | : 9781498135962 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1871 Edition.
Author | : Xavier de Maistre |
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Total Pages | : 93 |
Release | : 1885 |
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