J Amery | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

..". if Am ry's pessimism disparages life, his humanism reaffirmsit. By trying to make sense of our existence, Am ry reminds us of why human life isprecious." -- Alan Wolfe, The New Republic
"Thepessimistic tone of this book is provocative and should interest students andfaculty involved with issues of aging." -- Choice
"Thewriting challenges and searches, trying to cut beneath conventional language andexpectations, seeking to delineate qualities of lived experience in their mostessential dimensions." -- Contemporary Gerontology
Fiveprofoundly moving and courageously honest essays about the process of aging by thefamous Belgian author of At the Mind's Limits. Each essay covers a set of issuesabout growing old, from the way aging makes the old progressively see time as theessence of their existence to the argument that everyone compromises with death inold age (the time in life when we feel the death that is in us).