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The Way of All Flesh: The Romance of Ruins Hardback - 2000

by Midas Dekkers; Sherry Marx-Macdonald (Translator)

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A wonderfully witty, erudite, and insightful book about the way "things fall apart" -- about the inevitable ruin of everything from bodies and works of art to ideals and whole societies
In "The Way of All Flesh" Midas Dekkers argues that things are at their most beautiful when they decay, provided they are given the chance. Old buildings are usually pulled down or restored. Aging people desperately try to act and look young, becuase novelty, youth and beauty are equated in our minds with what is desirable. Only mankind is bothered by the realization that "life is a way of dying slowly." By ignoring or evading the lure of decay, which has its own attractions, are we simply trying to escape from the truth?
With the idiosycratic erudition of the european intellectual -- Roberto Calasso
and Umberto Eco come to mind -- Dekkers stresses that our aversion to decay and mortality makes our lives shallow. This is the meditative essay as written by Fellini; Dekkers that ancient Rome's days of decline were its finest, and "The Way of All Flesh" is a profound and entertaining meditation on what it means to outlive one's usefulness, when the wheel of fortune has gone full circle.

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  • Title The Way of All Flesh: The Romance of Ruins
  • Author Midas Dekkers; Sherry Marx-Macdonald (Translator)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First American E
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
  • Publication date October 25, 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780374286828 / 0374286825
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.33 x 6.36 x 1.08 in (23.70 x 16.15 x 2.74 cm)
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Aging, Life cycles (Biology)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00042677
  • Dewey Decimal Code 612.670
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