The happy life : the search for contentment in the modern world / David Malouf.
Series: Quarterly essay ; issue 41Publication details: Melbourne : Black Inc., 2011.Description: 95 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781863955195
- QE 41 2011
- 306.20994 22
| Item type | Home library | Call number | Vol info | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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| Magazine | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | QE41 | Mar 2011 | Available | The Happy Life by David Malouf | 052539 |
Cover title.
Includes bibliographical references.
This issue also contains correspondence relating to the previous issue QE40 Trivial Pursuit by George Megalogenis : Peter Martin, Andrew Leigh, Tim Dixon, Mark O'Connor, Shaun Carney, Hugh Mackay, Barry Jones, George Megalogenis.
"In the first Quarterly Essay for 2011, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life? With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about contentment and the self. In considering the happy life ? what it is, and what makes it possible ? David Malouf returns to the "highest wisdom" of the classics, looks at how, thanks to Thomas Jefferson's way with words, happiness became a "right", and examines joy in the flesh as depicted by Rubens and Rembrandt. In a world become ever larger and impersonal, he finds happiness in an unlikely place. This is an essay to savour and reflect upon by one of Australia's greatest novelists."--Publisher's website.
