On Consolation - Ignatieff, Michael
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As read on BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week', a deeply moving exploration of the literature of consolation, of how writers (and the painter David and the Composer Mahler) have responded to tragedy and loss, from The Psalms to Albert Camus and Primo Levi.

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As read on BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week', a deeply moving exploration of the literature of consolation, of how writers (and the painter David and the Composer Mahler) have responded to tragedy and loss, from The Psalms to Albert Camus and Primo Levi.
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Autorenporträt
Michael Ignatieff is a writer, historian and former politician. He has taught at Cambridge, Oxford, the University of Toronto and Harvard and is currently university professor at Central European University in Vienna. His books, which have been translated into twelve languages, include Blood and Belonging, Isaiah Berlin: a life, The Needs of Strangers, The Russian Album and The Ordinary Virtues.
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An extraordinary meditation on loss and mortality - drawing on all of Michael Ignatieff's powers as a philosopher, a historian, a politician and a man. His portraits of figures such as Hume and Montaigne are sharp and dignified, troubling and consoling, thoughtful and deeply humane. Rory Stewart, author of The Places in Between