by Tzvetan Todorov · Garzanti · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788811600565
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«La bellezza salverà il mondo. Wilde, Rilke, Cvetaeva» is Tzvetan Todorov's essay, published by Garzanti in paperback (284 pages, in Italian).
Todorov reflects on the human aspiration to the absolute through art and beauty. He analyzes the lives of Oscar Wilde, Rainer Maria Rilke and Marina Cvetaeva, writers who made their existence a quest for perfection: passionate and tragic destinies that serve to question the meaning of a beautiful life and the «art of living».
Italian edition, translated by Emanuele Lana, of the essay originally published in French as «Les Aventuriers de l'absolu».
For readers interested in writers' biographies, European literature and philosophical reflection on beauty and creation.
Tzvetan Todorov was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist. He was the author of many books and essays, which have had a significant influence in anthropology, sociology, semiotics, literary theory, intellectual history and culture theory.
