A collection of lyrical and critical essays tracing a writer and thinker’s development through reflections on love, nature, mortality, exile, and the Mediterranean world. It combines early meditations and sensual celebrations with humanistic essays, literary appraisals of major writers, and personal reflections on existentialism and literary identity.
Publication year: 1970 (Vintage International edition)
Publisher: Vintage Books, a division of Random House, New York
Language: English
Original language: French
Translator: Ellen Conroy Kennedy
Target audience: Adults