From Stoic thinkers to contemporary philosophy, a short history of the pursuit of happiness around the Mediterranean.
Written the day after the great fire of the year 192 in Rome by the Greek doctor Galen de Pergamon (129-201), Do not grieve is a classic of a somewhat particular genre. Copied for twelve centuries, it disappeared in the slaughter of libraries which followed the fall of Constantinople. Found in 2005 in a codex of the Hellenic East, published five years later in the “Budé” collection by Les Belles Lettres, this treatise on ancient wisdom amazed its first modern readers. Author of Je Remballe My Library (Actes Sud, 2018), a book in which he grieves at having had to cash out the 35,000 books he had filed in a barn in Poitou, the Argentinean-Canadian writer Alberto Manguel places it very high.
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For the author of A History of Reading, Do Not Grieve is a powerfully acting treatise on consolation. In this text
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