saliotthomas
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Not being much of a non-fiction reader i was a bit taken aback at the start and it's very hard to describe the book and the man.
I suppose the base is a man trying to experience another way of life,an alternative to "moderne" usages.
He goes to live in the woods,building his own house,and living with the minimum.He bring life to it's basic needs,reducing all form of excess.The ascetic life of an hermit of some kind.He live there in contemplation,obsevation of the wild life,purging from all unescential.Like a scultor try to fing the core of a piece of wood by removing layer upon layer.
The book is very plaisant,with description of the pond,the winter animals entwined with an candide critic of human ways.He find people cough in social vicious cercle.They want more,work more and miss their lives altogether.Buy the pursuite of luxury and possession they deprive their existence of it's basic meaning.
I'm not very got at sharing this,try it ,it's very interesting and one of the most original work i read in a long time.
I should mention that the book was writen in 1845,and when i listen(audio)to the first chapiter,i was not aware of the period but thought it applied perfectly to our days.
Henry David Thoreau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I suppose the base is a man trying to experience another way of life,an alternative to "moderne" usages.
He goes to live in the woods,building his own house,and living with the minimum.He bring life to it's basic needs,reducing all form of excess.The ascetic life of an hermit of some kind.He live there in contemplation,obsevation of the wild life,purging from all unescential.Like a scultor try to fing the core of a piece of wood by removing layer upon layer.
The book is very plaisant,with description of the pond,the winter animals entwined with an candide critic of human ways.He find people cough in social vicious cercle.They want more,work more and miss their lives altogether.Buy the pursuite of luxury and possession they deprive their existence of it's basic meaning.
I'm not very got at sharing this,try it ,it's very interesting and one of the most original work i read in a long time.
I should mention that the book was writen in 1845,and when i listen(audio)to the first chapiter,i was not aware of the period but thought it applied perfectly to our days.
Henry David Thoreau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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