Melville House: The Art of Lying Down (ePub)
A Guide to Horizontal Living
(Sprache: Englisch)
"A strange and dreamy voice . . . , like an Italo Calvino short story, curiously translated from some lost, obscure language."
-Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
An utterly charming study of the history of lying down-which is more...
-Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
An utterly charming study of the history of lying down-which is more...
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"A strange and dreamy voice . . . , like an Italo Calvino short story, curiously translated from some lost, obscure language."
-Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
An utterly charming study of the history of lying down-which is more complicated than you might think
We spend a good third of our lives lying down: sleeping, dreaming, making love, thinking, reading, and getting well. Bernd Brunner's ode to lying down is a rich exploration of cultural history and an entertaining collection of tales, ranging from the history of the mattress to the "slow living movement" to Stone Age repose-when people did not sleep lying down-and beyond. He approaches the horizontal state from a number of directions, but never loses his keen sense for the odd or unusual detail.
Far from being a pose of passivity or laziness, lying down can be a protest, a chance to gather thoughts or change your point of view-the other side to our upright, productive lives. Brunner makes an eloquent case for the importance of lying down in a world that values ever-greater levels of activity, arguing that time spent horizontally offers rewards that we'd do well not to ignore.
-Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
An utterly charming study of the history of lying down-which is more complicated than you might think
We spend a good third of our lives lying down: sleeping, dreaming, making love, thinking, reading, and getting well. Bernd Brunner's ode to lying down is a rich exploration of cultural history and an entertaining collection of tales, ranging from the history of the mattress to the "slow living movement" to Stone Age repose-when people did not sleep lying down-and beyond. He approaches the horizontal state from a number of directions, but never loses his keen sense for the odd or unusual detail.
Far from being a pose of passivity or laziness, lying down can be a protest, a chance to gather thoughts or change your point of view-the other side to our upright, productive lives. Brunner makes an eloquent case for the importance of lying down in a world that values ever-greater levels of activity, arguing that time spent horizontally offers rewards that we'd do well not to ignore.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Bernd Brunner
- 2013, 176 Seiten, Englisch
- Übersetzer: Lori Lantz
- Verlag: Melville House
- ISBN-10: 1612193102
- ISBN-13: 9781612193106
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.12.2013
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