A Journey Around My Room

Alain de botton concentrates on the journey aspect noting that in familiar places we have become habituated and therefore blind.

A journey around my room.

The first part a journey around my room was wonderful. A journey round my room by maistre xavier de 1763 1852. A journey around my room by xavier de maistre review a witty response to being confined in your room nicholas lezard. A journey round my room by xavier de maistre translated by henry atwell.

Americana digitizing sponsor university of illinois urbana champaign contributor. Publication date 1871 publisher london longmans green reader and dyer collection university of illinois urbana champaign. There is a 4 page foreword by alain de botton and a 7 page introduction by the translator andrew brown. New york hurd and houghton 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.

Alain de botton concentrates on the journey aspect noting that in familiar places we have become habituated and therefore blind. A journey around my room is 69 pages and a nocturnal expedition around my room 62 pages. My three star rating might be a little harsh because it s a combined rating for both stories in the book. A true evaluation would be four stars for the first story in the collection and two stars for the second.