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'Perhaps the most remarkable autobiography since the confessions of Rousseau' V. S. Pritchett, New S ...
'The book is gripping, and one can't help feeling that Fowles was writing-what may come to be seen as ...
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EAN: 9780099429852
Published: 06 June 2002
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography & autobiography
Yet Being Someone Other is the most revealing book that Laurens van der Post wrote about his extraordinary and eventful life, and the most far-reaching; it is a distillation of the experiences that have moved him at the deepest level of the imagination and made him the exceptional person and writer he was.
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'Perhaps the most remarkable autobiography since the confessions of Rousseau' V. S. Pritchett, New Statesman
'The book is gripping, and one can't help feeling that Fowles was writing-what may come to be seen as one of the very best of his works' Literary Review
In the Nobel Prize citation Andr- Gide's work was praised as 'a form of the passionate love of truth that, since Montaigne and Rousseau, has become a necessity in French literature'. A search for truth ...
'Positively compulsive' Sunday Telegraph
Laurens van der Post was born in South Africa in 1906, the thirteenth of fifteen children in a family of Dutch and French Hugeunot origins. Most of his adult life was spent with one foot in Africa and ...