Name: A Dutiful Son
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Author: Pascal Bruckner

Type

Physical Book

Author

Pascal Bruckner

Translated by

Mike Mitchell

Publisher

Dedalus

Language

English

Pages

176

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x13.2x1.3 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN13

9781910213162

Synopsis "A Dutiful Son"

Pascal Bruckner's memoir reads like a novel, a Bildungsroman which charts his journey from pious Catholic child to leading philosopher and writer on French culture. The key figure in Bruckner's life is his father, a virulent anti-Semite, who voluntarily went to work in Germany during the Second World War. He is a violent man who beats his wife. The young Bruckner soon reacts against his father and his revenge is to become his polar opposite, even to the point of being happy to be called a "Jewish thinker", which he is not. "My father helped me to think better by thinking against him. I am his defeat." Despite this opposition, he remains tied to his father to the very end. He has other "fathers", men such as Sartre, Vladimir Jankelevitch and Roland Barthes who fostered his philosophical development, and describes his friendship with his "philosophical twin brother", Alain Finkielkraut. A great read for anyone interested in the 1960s, the intellectual life of France and the father and son relationship.

Pascal Bruckner

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Pascal Bruckner es un escritor y ensayista francés nacido en París en 1948, reconocido por su mirada crítica sobre la cultura occidental y por su capacidad para combinar filosofía, literatura y análisis social con una narrativa directa y provocadora. Formado en la Sorbona y en la École Pratique des Hautes Études, desarrolló su pensamiento en diálogo con corrientes intelectuales europeas, convirtiéndose en una voz influyente dentro del debate público.

Recibió el Premio Médicis de Ensayo por La tentación de la inocencia, obra que consolidó su prestigio internacional. Entre sus títulos verificados destaca Un instante eterno, donde reflexiona sobre la edad adulta y la obsesión contemporánea por la juventud. También es autor de novelas como Lunas de hiel, que inspiró una célebre adaptación cinematográfica. Además de su producción literaria, Bruckner participa activamente en conferencias y debates sobre ética, política y sociedad, manteniéndose como un referente del pensamiento crítico francés.

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