On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times
- ISBN-10
- 1529053773
- ISBN-13
- 9781529053777
- Category
- Consolation
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2022-01-20
- Publisher
- Picador
- Author
- Michael Ignatieff
Description
As read on BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week', a deeply moving exploration of the literature of consolation, of how writers (and the painter David and the Composer Mahler) have responded to tragedy and loss, from The Psalms to Albert Camus and Primo Levi.
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