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

ISBN: 0231118406

ISBN13: 9780231118408

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

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"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...

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