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A carregar... The Anatomy of Melancholy (New York Review Books Classics) (original 1621; edição 2001)por Robert Burton (Autor)
Pormenores da obraThe Anatomy of Melancholy por Robert Burton (1621)   
Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. 1   bradleyhorner | Jun 1, 2020 |  Obra desmesurada cuya enorme extensión ha hecho sumamente azarosa su trayectoria editorial, la "Anatomía de la melancolía" (1621) es un minucioso examen de un rasgo propio de numerosos temperamentos humanos que, vinculado a veces al genio y otras a la locura, ha hallado forma de manifestarse desde la antigua hipocondría al moderno "spleen" o los actuales trastornos psíquicos. Contemporáneo de John Donne y en buena medida de Shakespeare, Robert Burton (1577-1640) -hombre de carrera silenciosa, sedentaria, solitaria, íntima en el Christ Church College de Oxford- incluyó en su magna obra su vasto caudal de conocimientos sobre los más diversos autores y materias en forma de resúmenes históricos, consideraciones filosóficas, anécdotas literarias, mitos y leyendas, citas poéticas, informaciones científicas, meditaciones teológicas, juicios médicos y entretenidas digresiones. Alberto Manguel nos guía por esta intrincada selva seleccionando los pasajes más curiosos y cercanos al lector actual, a la vez que proporciona una inmejorable posibilidad de asomarse a una obra mucho más citada que conocida y que constituye un hito de la cultura occidental. biblioteca_cpal | May 27, 2020 | 3 v. Orig. publ. 1893 ; rptd. in Bohn's standard library in 1896, 1903 ; rptd. in Bohn's popular library 1926-1927. (  )1 |  ME_Dictionary | Mar 19, 2020 | 3 v. ( ) ME_Dictionary | Mar 19, 2020 | ANATOMÍA DE LA MELANCOLÍA Obra desmesurada, cuya enorme extensión ha hecho sumamente azarosa su trayectoria editorial desde que se publicara por vez primera en 1621, la ANATOMIA DE LA MELANCOLIA es un minucioso examen de un rasgo propio de numerosos temperamentos humanos que, vinculado a veces genio y otras a la locura, ha hallado forma de manifestarse desde la antigua hipocondria al moderno spleen o los contemporáneos trastornos psiquicos. Contemporáneo de John Donne y en buena medida de Shakespeare, ROBERT BURTON (1577-1640), hombre de carrera silenciosa, sedentaria, solitaria, intima en el Christ Church College de Oxford, del que llegó a ser bibliotecario en 1626, incluyó en su magna obra el vasto caudal de sus conocimientos sobre los más diversos autores y materias en forma de resúmenes históricos, , consideraciones filosóficas, anécdotas literarias, mitos y leyendas, citas noéticas, informaciones científicas, meditaciones teológicas, juicios médicos y entretenidas digresiones. Prologuista y antólogo de este volumen Alberto Manguel hace de guía por esta intrincada selva, seleccionando los pasajes más curiosos y cercanos al lector actual, y proporciona una inmejorable posibilidad de asomarse a una obra mucho más citada que conocida y que constituye una obra fundamental de la cultura. FundacionRosacruz | Oct 28, 2019 |
Robert Burton's The anatomy of melancholy, first completed in 1621, appears to be a medical work, but is described in the Tudor edition of 1927 by Floyd Dell and Paul Jordan-Smith (Tudor Publishing Company, New York) as 'a sort of literary cosmos, an omnium gatherum, a compendium of everything that caught the fancy of the scholar.. . abounding in quaint conceits, excerpts and quotations'. The 52-page index to the 984-page text reflects this anecdotal profusion.
One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it "the greatest work of prose of the greatest period of English prose-writing," while the celebrated surgeon William Osler declared it the greatest of medical treatises. And Dr. Johnson, Boswell reports, said it was the only book that he rose early in the morning to read with pleasure. In this surprisingly compact and elegant new edition, Burton's spectacular verbal labyrinth is sure to delight, instruct, and divert today's readers as much as it has those of the past four centuries. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
 Google Books — A carregar...Capas popularesAvaliaçãoMédia: (4.31)
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If he went out of his way to design for us a perfect way to exhaust us with his knowledge of poverty, nobility, love, the Humors, the Galenic qualities of all kinds of foodstuffs, and do it with more in-text annotations than actual text, doing it all in that peculiar idiom common to any English text coming out before the advent of the DICTIONARY, then I think he succeeded. Admirably.
And let me tell you... Robert Burton defeated me.
He set out to give us the full wide range of depression in this academic treatise that fills to the height of 1620's modern medicine, stoops to the depths of hundreds of poetical sources, revolts us in explaining just HOW one might get depressed... and teaches us how to fight our own depression by making us come up with a thousand and one reasons why we ought to stop this FREAKING ENORMOUS BOOK and JUST STOP... thereby relieving our -- by now -- enormous melancholy.
I made it half-way through. I found myself negatively enjoying practically every new step in this amazingly long-winded treatise. I could not find a single aspect about it that made me want to continue.
Not the science, not the beginnings of psychology, not the weird historical curiosity.
I was defeated. I am sad to say, after 29 hours of Librivox and epub slogging, that I will now DNF.
Goodnight.
I may laugh myself to sleep. The relief is palpable. (