Pascal Bruckner
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty. To fail to be happy is to fail utterly. Happiness has become a religion -- one whose smiley-faced god looks down in rebuke upon everyone who hasn't yet attained the blessed state of perpetual euphoria. How has a liberating principle of the Enlightenment -- the right to pursue happiness -- become the unavoidable and burdensome responsibility to be happy? How did we...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The first section, "Portrait of an Invisible Man," reveals Auster's memories and feelings after the death of his father, a distant, undemonstrative, almost cold man. As he attends to his father's business affairs and sifts through his effects, Auster uncovers a sixty-year-old family murder mystery that sheds light on his father's elusive character. In "The Book of Memory," the perspective shifts from Auster's identity as son to his role as father....
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