The Book of Elaborations: Essays

By Oscar Mandel

Book Overview

Like Montaigne before him, Mandel examines the antic mind of his fellowmen, vain, various, and ever-changing, and its peculiar manifestations in an age that embraces ugliness and irrationality. The sixteen pieces in the collection are, literally, 'elaborations'--discursive, associative, meditative--of the author's earlier lyric poems and epigrams, arranged by him to move in an easy way from the autobiographical to matters more general and abstract.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811210235
• ISBN13: 9780811210232
• Release Date: November 1987
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.9"