Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century

A profound and delightful jeu d'esprit of a book, mixing biography, etymology, cultural history and quixotic scientific experiments. Aldersey-Williams pulls the unfairly neglected yet enormously influential writer Thomas Browne out of the obscure pages of Pseudodoxia Epidemica and into the 21st century, to apply his generous curiosity and rational intelligence to the vagaries and contradictions of life today. Browne has had some impressive fans (Sebald, Woolf, Borges, Poe, Marias) but this book will revive him, bringing his extraordinary genius to a whole new audience.

Un joc de spirit profund si incantator al unei carti, amestecand biografie, etimologie, istorie culturala si experimente stiintifice quixotice. Aldersey-Williams il retrage pe scriitorul nedrept neglijat, dar extrem de influent, Thomas Browne, din paginile obscure ale Pseudodoxiei Epidemica si in secolul XXI, pentru a-si aplica generoasa curiozitate si inteligenta rationala la capriciile si contradictiile vietii de astazi.