Otoño

by Henry David Thoreau

En Otoño reunimos, compilados por Peter Saint-André, fragmentos de distintas fuentes (principalmente de sus diarios), en los que Henry David Thoreau reflexiona, entre septiembre y noviembre, sobre las particularidades que ofrece el otoño, "el momento en que la primera flor del cardo desciende sobre alguna superficie plana del lago, llena de reflejos, en el bosque, e indica a los peces que madura el año".

96 pages, Paperback

Published October 3, 2022

About the author

Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher, and abolitionist who is best known for Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.

Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.

In 1817, Henry David Thoreau was born in Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1837, taught briefly, then turned to writing and lecturing. Becoming a Transcendentalist and good friend of Emerson, Thoreau lived the life of simplicity he advocated in his writings. His two-year experience in a hut in Walden, on land owned by Emerson, resulted in the classic, Walden: Life in the Woods (1854). During his sojourn there, Thoreau refused to pay a poll tax in protest of slavery and the Mexican war, for which he was jailed overnight. His activist convictions were expressed in the groundbreaking On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849). In a diary he noted his disapproval of attempts to convert the Algonquins "from their own superstitions to new ones." In a journal he noted dryly that it is appropriate for a church to be the ugliest building in a village, "because it is the one in which human nature stoops to the lowest and is the most disgraced." (Cited by James A. Haught in 2000 Years of Disbelief.) When Parker Pillsbury sought to talk about religion with Thoreau as he was dying from tuberculosis, Thoreau replied: "One world at a time."

Thoreau's philosophy of nonviolent resistance influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas K. Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. D. 1862.

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Reviews

[Tami C. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Otoño es mi estación favorita así que era obvio que no podía más que adorar este libro. Siempre digo que Thoreau tiene la habilidad de transportarte con sus palabras y observaciones a los lugares que describe, y cuando uno está asfixiandose en una ciudad, no hay mejor remedio que tomar un pequeño viaje mental por el bosque. Me encanta cómo me hace reflexionar con su filosofía y estudio sobre el mundo natural vs el humano, a la vez que casi consigo escuchar a los pájaros trinando y el crujido de las hojas en un sendero junto al río. Es toda una experiencia de lectura, y la edición de Godot no solo es preciosa, sino que está muy bien editada y traducida 🥰

[Mauricio · Rating 2 out of 5]

Recommended in case you want to know how does the autumn feel (remember while in USA is autumn here in the south pole it isn't)