Xavier de Maistre

'A Journey Around My Room and A Nocturnal Expedition around My Room'

Bog | Engelsk

Finding himself locked in his room for six weeks, a young officer journeys around his room in his imagination, using the various objects it contains as inspiration for a delightful parody of contemporary travel-writing and an exercise in Sternean picaresq

'Voyage Around My Room'

Bog | Engelsk

In 1790, while serving in the Piedmontese army, the French aristocrat Xavier de Maistre (17631852) was punished for dueling and placed under house arrest for forty-two days. The result was a discursive, mischievous memoir Voyage Around My Room, and its se