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Monday, April 12, 2010

Thoreau: recursos

por redenção, quem sabe.

no NY Times. Thoreau, por Joyce Carol Oates.

"Eventually I would read other works of Thoreau's and even teach ''Walden'' numberless times (in startling but always fruitful juxtaposition with, among other texts, Freud's ''Civilization and Its Discontents,'' Nietzsche's ''Thus Spake Zarathustra,'' ''The Jungle,'' by Upton Sinclair, Lewis Carroll's ''Alice'' books and ''The Hunting of the Snark''), but it is the ''Walden'' of my adolescence I remember most vividly - suffused with the powerfully intense, romantic energies of youth, the sense that life is boundless, experimental, provisionary, ever-fluid and unpredictable, the conviction that, whatever the accident of the outer self, the truest self is inward, secret, inviolable."

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