translated and presented by Benito Pelegrin, Editions du Seuil, October 2005, 940 p. This book was awarded the prize Jules Janin of the French Academy in 2006.
The six treaties that Jesuit genius and perverse, used by La Rochefoucauld, admired by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Lacan, translated and annotated by Benito PelegrÃn. In these brief Treaties The Hero, The Politics , The Honest Man , Oracle manual, Gracian, offers his reader a "rule of reason [so] self", the figures of Success in Society And he dissects in short sentences and sententious, amoral mechanisms of movement of the great man to glory: the cunning, the mask, the art of appearing in the Grand Theatre of the World. But in the manual Oracle , it condenses the success of this strategy unscrupulous use of everyone, in 300 aphorisms strikingly cynical quiet, to the end, success, without much concern means because "A good end halo all, even if it is not tarnished by false means." In a world where image is king, where to put the mask of innocence because "You're not used to be right with a face that is wrong." World in which "the life of man militia against the wickedness of man" even if "it is better to be absolutely crazy than wise alone." After these
"Figures of Success", this book presents "Figures from the spirit and soul" through two works, including the masterful "Facets of Art and Spirit," which analyzes the operation of Gracian mind, joke, play on words, gives the mechanisms, by anticipating the rhetoric of fundamental Baroque art works of Freud.
Finally, "The Art of Communion," the only work that the Jesuit, hidden until then, sign his real name and only agrees to submit to censorship of his order to protect themselves from attacks which he is the object.
Back Cover, Editor's Note
"star of first magnitude" according to Lacan next to La Rochefoucauld (who later used as Nietzsche), in the tradition of European moralists, Baltasar Gracian (1601 - 1658) is best known for his subtle and profound reflection on the mysteries of life and social behavior for the advice, always present, it gives those who want to succeed, including the politician or the professional of today ' Today can gain much profit. For the first time, readers French language will find collected in this volume all of its treaties in a new translation (from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries es) or the first global translation (Figures Art and the Spirit ) impression of a real literary beauty. It may well take the full measure of a major work which, through the various figures that are "honest man", "the courtier" or "hero" or the "Beautiful Mind" 's asked about the destiny of man, his relation to society, language and God.
Benito PelegrÃn is One of the best known European specialists of Baroque and Gracian, which he translated and commented extensively and to which he devoted a Doctorate of State. His numerous articles on the subject are authoritative. He spent
Gracian several books, numerous works, some 5000 pages already indexed in 2001 by the bibliography prepared by Mrs. E. Cantarino who are, according to the Italian critic gracianesque, "he capo lavoro degli Studi gracian," the leader gracianesques studies.
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