The Life of an Unknown: The Rediscovered World of a Clog Maker in Nineteenth-Century France

by Alain Corbin

Book Overview

"My task is piecing together a puzzle... I hope to reconstitute the existence of a person whose memory has been abolished.... I want to re-create him, to give him a second chance... to become part of the memory of his century." With these words, Alain Corbin embarks on a journey that is part history and part metaphysics: recreating the life and world of a man about whom nothing is known except for his entries in the civil registries and historical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231118406
• ISBN13: 9780231118408
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher