Confessions: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition - Brossura

Augustine, Saint, Bishop Of Hippo; Wills, Garry

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ISBN 10: 0143039512 ISBN 13: 9780143039518

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2006

Riassunto

A masterful new translation of the fourth-century spiritual autobiography reveals the spiritual life of Saint Augustine as it describes one man's odyssey from sinner to man of faith and reflects on such themes as faith, identity, truth, time, self-understanding, education, and spiritual awakening. Original.

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Recensione:

"[Wills] renders Augustine’s famous and influential text in direct language with all the spirited wordplay and poetic strength intact." —Los Angeles Times

 

"[Wills’s] translations . . . are meant to bring Augustine straight into our own minds; and they succeed. Well-known passages, over which my eyes have often gazed, spring to life again from Wills’s pages." —Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books

"Augustine flourishes in Wills’s hand." —James Wood

"A masterful synthesis of classical philosophy and scriptural erudition." —Chicago Tribune

L'autore:

Saint Augustine was born on November 13th, A.D. 354, in Tagaste (modern Souk Ahras, Algeria), and died almost seventy-six years later in Hippo Regius (modern Annaba) on the Mediterranean coast sixty miles away. In the years between, he devoted himself to the mastery of the texts of scripture, becoming a formidable theologian.

Garry Wills is a historian and the author of the New York Times bestsellers What Jesus Meant, Papal Sin, Why I Am a Catholic, and Why Priests?, among others. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and other publications, Wills is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor emeritus at Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0143039512
• ISBN 13: 9780143039518
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 353