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Bradbury's novel proceeds to deftly seesaw between the Age of Reason championed by Diderot and the present so-called end of history and "triumph" of global capitalism. It ruefully, but also very humorously, reflects on the perils of intellectual idealism then and now, and explores the ways in which "history is the lies the present tells in order to make sense of the past". Sprawling, messy, hugely ambitious and at times very funny, To The Hermitage is up there with Eating People is Wrong and Rates of Exchange as one of Bradbury's better pieces of fiction. --Jerry Brotton
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: new. First Edition. In alternating narratives Bradbury brilliantly recreates the climate of the eighteenth centuryas Diderot journeys to Russia at the behest of Catherine the Great for discussions on the nature of the late18thcentury world as well as the twentieth century academic milieu In October 1993 a novelist is invited to go to Stockholm and Russia to take part in what is enigmatically referred to as the Diderot Project In Stockholm he is joined by various other members of the projectincluding an academic a lustful opera singer and a Swedish diplomat On the journey to Russia more is revealed about the great Enlightenment writer Denis Diderotthe son of a knife maker in Langres who went to Paris and compiled the Encyclopedia a book that changed the world. Seller Inventory # DADAX1585671312
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