The Book of Elaborations

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811209628
• ISBN13: 9780811209625
• Release Date: October 1985
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.0"