Melancholic Joy
On Life Worth Living
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Word Count
60,000 words, Guess
Page Count
240 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101350177733
- ISBN-139781350177734
- Better World Books9781350177734
- Open LibraryOL36250177M
Classifications
- LCCNX650.M44T74 2021
Description
"Drawing on varied examples from poetry, literature and film, including Virginia Woolf, Jack Gilbert and the films of Terrence Malick, Melancholic Joy offers an honest assessment of the human condition. It unflinchingly acknowledges the everyday frustrations and extraordinary horrors that generate despair and argues that the appropriate response to this darkness is to take up joy again, not in an attempt to ignore or dismiss evil, but rather as part of a "melancholic joy" that accepts the mystery of a world that is both beautiful and brutal"--
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