An education in happiness / Flavia Arzeni ; translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arzeni, Flavia.

Standardized Title:

Educazione alla felicità. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962--Criticism and interpretation.

Hesse, Hermann.

Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Tagore, Rabindranath.

Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941.

Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962.

Happiness in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

196 pages : portrait ; 20 cm

Other Title:

Education in happiness : the lessons of Hesse and Tagore

Place of Publication:

London : Pushkin Press, 2009.

Summary:

Happiness "is neither a privilege of the few, nor a fleeting state of mind: it is hidden behind a door that every person can open once they have found it, at the end of an arduous journey of self-discovery."The two Nobel Prize-winning writers Rabindranath Tagore and Hermann Hesse are arguably very different: one comes to us from the core of Indian culture, the other from the very heart of Old Europe; the former is an eternal wanderer, the latter a determined armchair traveller. Still, there are extraordinary affinities between their works, and they both understood that the path to happiness is paved with small acts and simple notions.Flavia Arzeni's book offers us an oasis of stability and calm in which we can find the answers to our fundamental concerns about life and happiness.

Notes:

Translation of: Un'educazione alla felicità : la lezione di Hesse e Tagore

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781906548117

1906548110

OCLC:

427613671