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Spinoza: A Novel (Volume II)

Spinoza: A Novel (Volume II)


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An excerpt from The Nation, Volume 34: The translator of 'Spinoza' calls it a novel. Auerbach himself named it "Ein Denkerleben," and it is in fact one of those imaginative biographies which attempt rather to embody the spirit of a life than to narrate an exact sequence of real events. It is a book of many years since, and many who have read Auerbach's later works can never have heard of it. The oblivion that fell upon it is hardly deserved, though it has nothing to attract the usual novel-reader; on the other hand, while a life so lofty in aim and so absolute in its consecration to truth as Spinoza's can nowhere be viewed with indifference readers who can appreciate his intellectual force will seek it in philosophy rather than in fiction. The story follows the well-known outlines, closing with the excommunication of Spinoza by the ten Rabbis, "since he would have naught but the good old right of free thought." The portrait of Spinoza is lifelike, although the dialogue often becomes only a disquisition in philosophy, but the other figures lack reality. Even Olympia, the young Roman Catholic whom he loves but will not marry because he cannot forsake the faith of his fathers, has no such charm as to justify his devotion. The translation is superior to most work of the kind. It never degrades the original, though the sentences often labor with the weight of the heavy inversions of the German. "This neck-risking setting of his formerly squandered life on a single cast," is not English. There is an unaccountable fondness for changing constructions: the literal "Am I to be a tradesman?" is surely better than "Must I go into trade?" (See Chapter II).


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  • ISBN-13: 9781496102980
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 154
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Weight: 213 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1496102983
  • Publisher Date: 27 Feb 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Novel (Volume II)
  • Width: 152 mm


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