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Against Joie de Vivre: Personal Essays
Phillip Lopate
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“Over the years I have developed a distaste for the spectacle of joie de vivre, the knack of knowing how to live,” begins the title essay by Phillip Lopate. This rejoinder to the cult of hedonism and forced conviviality moves from a critique of the false sentimentalization of children and the elderly to a sardonic look at the social rite of the dinner party, on to a moving personal testament to the “hungry soul.” Lopate’s special gift is his ability to give us not only sophisticated cultural commentary in a dazzling collection of essays but also to bring to his ... Read more
“Over the years I have developed a distaste for the spectacle of joie de vivre, the knack of knowing how to live,” begins the title essay by Phillip Lopate. This rejoinder to the cult of hedonism and forced conviviality moves from a critique of the false sentimentalization of children and the elderly to a sardonic look at the social rite of the dinner party, on to a moving personal testament to the “hungry soul.” Lopate’s special gift is his ability to give us not only sophisticated cultural commentary in a dazzling collection of essays but also to bring to his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803222731
SKU
V9780803222731
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About Phillip Lopate
Phillip Lopate is the director of the nonfiction graduate program and teaches writing at Columbia University. He is the author and editor of numerous books including Portrait Inside My Head: Essays, To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction, and Notes on Sontag.
Reviews for Against Joie de Vivre: Personal Essays
“Lopate entertains by blasting write-your-own-vows weddings, camaraderie in bars and the enforced gaiety of dinner parties but expounds more positively on movies, friendship and subletting as a lifestyle. . . . Despite its cranky title, this lively, unpredictable collection of essays is a joy to read, and read again.”—Publishers Weekly “Subtle, profound (and slightly devilish). Phillip Lopate can express the ... Read more