Title : It was good - Jean d'Ormesson - book
Summary :
Author of some twenty works, Jean d'Ormesson looks back on his past and on a life that has already been long. Like each of us, he was swept away by a time that invents everything before destroying everything. He lived in one of the bloodiest centuries in history. He witnessed the triumph of a science that now carries as many fears as hopes. He tried to be happy in a world where evil is inextricably mixed with the search for happiness. On this perishable earth, he loved books, women, and sea bathing. Books were the great business of his fleeting existence, of which he speaks with distance and gratitude. Gratitude to whom? Amazed by the endless play of chance and necessity, enchanted by a world he has traveled from one end to the other (with a preference for the Mediterranean), he believes in an order of things whose meaning he ignores. With ironic and slightly melancholic joy, he communicates to the reader three feelings that he experiences with force: stupor before the universe, terror before history, fervor before life.
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EAN : 9782070768196
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