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Like Montaigne before him, Mandel examines the antic mind of his fellowmen, vain, various, and ever-changing, and its peculiar manifestations in an age that embraces ugliness and irrationality. The sixteen pieces in the collection are, literally, 'elaborations' ”discursive, associative, meditative ”of the author's earlier lyric poems and epigrams, arranged by him to move in an easy way from the autobiographical to matters more general and abstract.Mandel, Oscar is the author of 'Book of Elaborations' with ISBN 9780811209625 and ISBN 0811209628.
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