PassionsGiacomoLeopardiTranslatedbyTimParks‘Revenge–Revengeissosweetoneoften wishes to be insulted so as to be able to take revenge, and I don’t mean just by an old enemy, but anyone, or even (especially when in a really bad mood) by a friend.’ Freshly translated into English by master translator, novelist and critic Tim Parks, selected entries from Leopardi’s acclaimed intellectual diary shine a light on his frequently disdainful musings on the human passions and illustrate how his work anticipates such later thinkers as Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Beckett and others.
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