The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert wrote daily for over 40 years without producing a single book. This selection from his notebooks contains samples of his reflections...more

Joseph Joubert wrote daily for over 40 years without producing a single book. This selection from his notebooks contains samples of his reflections on writing, judgments of his contemporaries, pronouncements against scientific materialism, parenting tips, aesthetic musings, comments on the Revolution and its aftermath, and cosmic miniatures. Not published in their entirety until 1938, the notebooks reveal Joubert as an author of great clarity and depth, perhaps France's first truly modern writer.   less