The Book of Elaborations

Author/Contributor(s):	Mandel, Oscar
Publisher:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date:	10/17/1985
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Like Montaigne before him, Mandel examines the antic mind of his fellowmen, vain, various, and ever-changing, and its peculiar manifestations in an age that embraces ugliness and irrationality. The sixteen pieces in the collection are, literally, 'elaborations'--discursive, associative, meditative--of the author's earlier lyric poems and epigrams, arranged by him to move in an easy way from the autobiographical to matters more general and abstract.