The World Within
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The World Within
Narrado por:
Guy Stagg
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Guy Stagg
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Guy Stagg
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To answer this question, Guy Stagg tells the story of three of the twentieth century’s most original minds: the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, the poet and painter David Jones, and the writer Simone Weil. All three went on retreat during times of crisis, to find their work and their lives changed for ever. Seeking to understand these experiences, Stagg follows Wittgenstein to the ancient monastery outside Vienna where he recovered from depression, sails to the isolated island off the Welsh coast where Jones discovered a new way to make art, and spends Lent at the forbidding French Abbey that sparked an epiphany in Weil’s thinking.
The World Within blends a moving personal account with history, biography and travel, offering a profound exploration of the impulse to withdraw. It asks why retreat still enchants people to this day and hints at how each one of us can find a sanctuary of our own.
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‘Stagg writes well and brightly about all he encounters: church architecture, monastic history, the people?, landscapes and weather?, and his own hesitancies. He is candid and flexible in his thinking. As to his three chosen figures, he is generous in his dealings with them, questing and explicating, never dismissive’ - Kathleen Jaime, Observer
‘This remarkable book is structured round three retreats by travel writer Guy Stagg . . . Stagg has chosen well with his three twentieth-century outsiders . . . [he] has interesting things to say about all of them . . . Stagg tells the story of [Simone Weil’s] life and death with great sensitivity. Almost everything about this beautiful outsider makes me cry . . . Stagg, too, is on a journey, which is what makes his books so attractive and accessible’ - AN Wilson, The Tablet
‘Treat[s] his complex subjects with insight and empathy . . . Though he remains ambivalent about faith, the author’s convictions about solitude and creativity change fundamentally throughout this elegant, thoughtful book’ - Mark Nayler, TLS
‘This remarkable book is structured round three retreats by travel writer Guy Stagg . . . Stagg has chosen well with his three twentieth-century outsiders . . . [he] has interesting things to say about all of them . . . Stagg tells the story of [Simone Weil’s] life and death with great sensitivity. Almost everything about this beautiful outsider makes me cry . . . Stagg, too, is on a journey, which is what makes his books so attractive and accessible’ - AN Wilson, The Tablet
‘Treat[s] his complex subjects with insight and empathy . . . Though he remains ambivalent about faith, the author’s convictions about solitude and creativity change fundamentally throughout this elegant, thoughtful book’ - Mark Nayler, TLS
‘Explores the lives of three 20th-century thinkers . . . Stagg visits the places where they found quiet solace in times of crisis and examines how their solitude influenced their work and genius . . . In an age riddled with noise and distraction, The World Within feels timely. It reminds us that silence and solitude are vital for self-discovery’
‘Guy Stagg's The World Within is a compelling and contemplative investigation into the nature of retreat, asking why writers and artists seek periods, or lives, in solitude. Like a detective, Stagg traces the routes of three 20th century figures, arriving at their former sanctuaries with a self-conscious curiosity, speaking to monks, immersing himself in landscapes, listening to the prayers and chants that sustained them. In the shadow of each story is the fractious political history of 20th century Europe – war and persecution – which deepens the book’s study, as does Stagg’s voice – candid, self-revelatory, scholarly and empathetic’ (Hannah Lowe, Costa-prize winning author of The Kids)
‘In this thrilling exploration of the complex nature of retreat and the ever-present allure of solitude, Guy Stagg carves out his own beautiful silences and transformations with prose as luminescent as his brilliantly inquisitive spirit’ (Chloe Aridjis, author of Sea Monsters)
‘At once lucid and provocatively mysterious, Stagg’s meditation on the interludes in which three of the last century’s most imaginative minds chose to step back from the world offers fresh insights into their creative trajectories – and valuable clues as to how we might renew our own inner lives’ (George Prochnik, author of The Impossible Exile)
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