Augustine: The Confessions (Landmarks of World Literature) - Tapa blanda

."..a complete and unambiguous success. I have already used it in teaching, with immense relief. It offers reliable guidance to the undergraduate reader of the Confessions in translation and in numerous ways supplements and complements my own specialist commentary. I may be in a special position to be delighted in having a book of the sort that brings an authoritative voice not my own into a class on the Confessions, but others will find it of great use as well....at every point sound, intelligent, and well written." James J. O'Donnell, Speculum

When Augustine wrote his Confessions in the last years of the fourth century, he was just over forty and had abandoned a successful career for a life of prayer and study. He interpreted his past life as a search for God, in which understanding and commitment had been frustrated by wrong education, mistaken ambition, sexual desire and sinful nature. Some readers are inspired by his brilliance and devotion, others think he misread his own past. This book discusses the transformation of Augustine's own life and of the late Roman world, the structure, style and purpose of the Confessions, and the problems of rhetoric and truth posed by Augustine's account of himself. It concludes with a brief overview of the influence of this landmark text in the history of European culture.