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Sobre arte y literatura
Sobre arte y literatura ofrece una amplia selección de los pensamientos que sobre ambos temas –que son, quizá, aquellos acerca de los que mejor se expresó su autor, y en los que más contemporáneo nuestro parece– escribió uno de los más desconocidos, pero también interesantes, escritores del tránsito del siglo XVIII al XIX: Joseph Joubert, «autor sin libro, escritor sin escrito», según dijera Blanchot, uno de sus mayores exégetas. En 1838, catorce años después de la muerte de Joubert, su amigo Chateaubriand se encargó de realizar la primera selección del Diario de aquél: «A través de la belleza de estas páginas podrá verse lo que perdí yo y lo que perdió el mundo. Podremos no estar de acuerdo con Joubert, pero ¿cómo abarcar el poder de su genio? Nunca pensamiento alguno había provocado tantas dudas a la inteligencia, ni planteado cuestiones tan elevadas, ni inquietado tanto».
«Desde hace cinco años, he tratado de limitarme a lo que me interesa apasionadamente, descubrimientos que he querido compartir. Los Cuadernos de Joubert, por ejemplo, o Para una tumba de Anatole, de Mallarmé. Las dos obras me parecen extraordinarias, diferentes a todo cuanto haya leído jamás.» (Paul Auster)
«Desde hace cinco años, he tratado de limitarme a lo que me interesa apasionadamente, descubrimientos que he querido compartir. Los Cuadernos de Joubert, por ejemplo, o Para una tumba de Anatole, de Mallarmé. Las dos obras me parecen extraordinarias, diferentes a todo cuanto haya leído jamás.» (Paul Auster)
101 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2007
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Joseph Joubert
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Joseph Joubert, prêtre catholique et un organiste
Joseph Joubert was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées published posthumously.
From the age of 14 Joubert attended a religious college in Toulouse, where he later taught until 1776. In 1778 he went to Paris where he met D'Alembert and Diderot, amongst others, and later became friends with young writer and diplomat Chateaubriand.
He alternated between living in Paris with his friends and life in the privacy of the countryside in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne. He was appointed inspector-general of the University under Napoleon.
Joubert published nothing during his lifetime, but he wrote a copious amount of letters and filled sheets of paper and small notebooks with thoughts about the nature of human existence, literature and other topics, in a poignant, often aphoristic style. After his death his widow entrusted Chateaubriand with these notes, and in 1838, he published a selection titled Recueil des pensées de M. Joubert (Collected Thoughts of Mr. Joubert). More complete editions were to follow, also of Joubert's correspondence.
Somewhat of the Epicurean school of philosophy, Joubert enjoyed even his own suffering as he believed sickness gave subtlety to the soul.
Joubert's works have been translated into numerous languages, into English by Paul Auster, amongst others.
Other authors publishing under this name are:
Joseph Joubert, prêtre catholique et un organiste
Joseph Joubert was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées published posthumously.
From the age of 14 Joubert attended a religious college in Toulouse, where he later taught until 1776. In 1778 he went to Paris where he met D'Alembert and Diderot, amongst others, and later became friends with young writer and diplomat Chateaubriand.
He alternated between living in Paris with his friends and life in the privacy of the countryside in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne. He was appointed inspector-general of the University under Napoleon.
Joubert published nothing during his lifetime, but he wrote a copious amount of letters and filled sheets of paper and small notebooks with thoughts about the nature of human existence, literature and other topics, in a poignant, often aphoristic style. After his death his widow entrusted Chateaubriand with these notes, and in 1838, he published a selection titled Recueil des pensées de M. Joubert (Collected Thoughts of Mr. Joubert). More complete editions were to follow, also of Joubert's correspondence.
Somewhat of the Epicurean school of philosophy, Joubert enjoyed even his own suffering as he believed sickness gave subtlety to the soul.
Joubert's works have been translated into numerous languages, into English by Paul Auster, amongst others.
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May 19, 2024tenía muchas reflexiones lindas de bolsillo, aquí 3:
Nos preocupa tener y exhibir una pequeña mente, y no nos preocupa tener y exhibir un pequeño corazón.
Lo que nos desvía en lo moral es el excesivo amor por el placer; y lo que nos retiene en lo metafísico es el amor por la certidumbre.
Si sólo produces sensaciones, ¿qué hacer con tu arte que una prostituta o el verdugo no puedan hacer tan bien como tu? Si en tu obra sólo está el cuerpo, eres un obrero sin alma
Nos preocupa tener y exhibir una pequeña mente, y no nos preocupa tener y exhibir un pequeño corazón.
Lo que nos desvía en lo moral es el excesivo amor por el placer; y lo que nos retiene en lo metafísico es el amor por la certidumbre.
Si sólo produces sensaciones, ¿qué hacer con tu arte que una prostituta o el verdugo no puedan hacer tan bien como tu? Si en tu obra sólo está el cuerpo, eres un obrero sin alma
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