I've mentioned Giacomo Leopardi's Zibaldone, one of the publication highlights of 2013, before (and have now also gotten my very own copy, which has left me near dumbstruck (and buckling under its 2500-page weight) ...) and in the Financial Times Robert Pogue Harrison has the first review of it that I've seen.
He finds it: "splendidly edited" and "superbly translated" (by: "a team of seven scholars in three different countries") -- and suggests it's:
If you too can not resist the call: see the Farrar, Straus & Giroux publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
He finds it: "splendidly edited" and "superbly translated" (by: "a team of seven scholars in three different countries") -- and suggests it's:
as important as the Notebooks of Coleridge, the Journals of Emerson, the Diaries of Kierkegaard, and the posthumous notes of Friedrich NietzscheI may have to invest in a bookstand just to be able to read the book (it's not the kind of volume you prop up in bed), but, yeah, it beckons ever stronger.
If you too can not resist the call: see the Farrar, Straus & Giroux publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.