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The World Within de Guy Stagg

The World Within

Autor Guy Stagg
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 iul 2025

Observăm în literatura academică și de popularizare o lacună în ceea ce privește analiza integrată a retragerii ca mecanism de transformare intelectuală și spirituală, dincolo de simpla evadare din cotidian. The World Within completează acest spațiu, propunând o investigație asupra modului în care izolarea autoimpusă a modelat gândirea unor figuri centrale ale secolului XX. Putem afirma că Guy Stagg nu se limitează la o analiză teoretică, ci reface fizic traseele acestora, de la mănăstirea austriacă unde Ludwig Wittgenstein și-a tratat depresia, până la insula izolată din largul coastelor galeze unde David Jones a revoluționat limbajul artistic.

Remarcăm o structură narativă hibridă care îmbină biografia riguroasă cu jurnalul de călătorie, oferind o perspectivă intimă asupra epifaniilor trăite de Simone Weil într-o abație franceză. Merită menționat că această abordare continuă temele explorate de autor în The Crossway, unde pelerinajul era văzut ca o formă de vindecare a minții. Dacă în lucrarea anterioară accentul cădea pe experiența personală, aici Stagg își extinde cercetarea asupra paradoxului dintre dorința de a aparține lumii și nevoia de a o părăsi.

Cartea reprezintă o alternativă la The Interior Silence de Sarah Sands pentru cursurile de istoria ideilor sau psihologie culturală, cu avantajul că nu se concentrează doar pe tehnici de de-stresare, ci pe fundamentul intelectual al solitudinii. În timp ce Retreat de Nat Segnit oferă o privire de ansamblu asupra fenomenului global al meditației, lucrarea lui Stagg este mai profund ancorată în contextul istoric și biografic al unor minți geniale aflate în criză.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781398533509
ISBN-10: 1398533505
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: SCRIBNER UK
Colecția Scribner UK

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor interesați de intersecția dintre biografie și filosofie. The World Within oferă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care solitudinea poate deveni un spațiu de creație, nu doar de izolare. Este un câștig pentru oricine dorește să exploreze viața lui Wittgenstein sau Simone Weil dintr-o perspectivă nouă, geografică și spirituală, învățând cum să identifice propriul „sanctuar” interior într-o lume dominată de zgomot.

Despre autor

Guy Stagg este un scriitor britanic apreciat pentru capacitatea sa de a îmbina reflecția personală cu explorarea geografică. Prima sa carte, The Crossway, a fost distinsă cu premiul Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year și a fost nominalizată la premii prestigioase precum Rathbones Folio Prize și Somerset Maugham Award. Lucrările sale se concentrează frecvent pe teme legate de religie, sănătate mintală și căutarea sensului prin mișcare și izolare. Prin The World Within, Stagg își consolidează vocea ca un fin observator al stărilor interioare umane în raport cu locurile pe care acestea le ocupă.

Descriere scurtă

‘Stagg writes masterfully’ The Times
‘An intriguing exploration of withdrawal and solitude’ Daily Telegraph
‘In an age riddled with noise and distraction, The World Within feels timely’ Press Association
All my life I have dreamed of retreat. Of letting go each responsibility and cutting every tie. And I know I’m not the only one. But, when I learnt about the creative figures who left their lives behind, I began to ask myself: what is gained and what is lost when we withdraw from the world?
 
To answer this question, Guy Stagg tells the story of three of the twentieth century’s most original minds: the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, the poet and painter David Jones, and the writer Simone Weil. All three went on retreat during times of crisis, to find their work and their lives changed for ever. Seeking to understand these experiences, Stagg follows Wittgenstein to the ancient monastery outside Vienna where he recovered from depression, sails to the isolated island off the Welsh coast where Jones discovered a new way to make art, and spends Lent at the forbidding French Abbey that sparked an epiphany in Weil’s thinking. 
 
The World Within blends a moving personal account with history, biography and travel, offering a profound exploration of the impulse to withdraw. It asks why retreat still enchants people to this day and hints at how each one of us can find a sanctuary of our own. 
A luminous new book from the critically acclaimed author of The Crossway, winner of the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year, and shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and Somerset Maugham Award 2019. 

Notă biografică

Guy Stagg was born in 1988 and grew up in Paris, Heidelberg, Yorkshire and London. The Crossway is his first book and is an account of his ten-month walk to Jerusalem. The author sets off from Canterbury on New Year’s Day, telling his friends and family only that he’ll be home before the year’s end. It was shortlisted for the inaugural DRF Award in 2016 and since then has won the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2019, as well as being shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019, the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019 and the Somerset Maugham Award 2019. The Crossway was a BBC Radio 4 ‘Book of the Week’.

Recenzii

‘Stagg writes well and brightly about all he encounters: church architecture, monastic history, the people?, landscapes and weather?, and his own hesitancies. He is candid and flexible in his thinking. As to his three chosen figures, he is generous in his dealings with them, questing and explicating, never dismissive’ - Kathleen Jaime, Observer

‘This remarkable book is structured round three retreats by travel writer Guy Stagg . . . Stagg has chosen well with his three ­twentieth-century outsiders . . . [he] has interesting things to say about all of them . . . Stagg tells the story of [Simone Weil’s] life and death with great sensitivity. Almost everything about this beautiful outsider makes me cry . . . Stagg, too, is on a journey, which is what makes his books so attractive and accessible’ - AN Wilson, The Tablet

‘Treat[s] his complex subjects with insight and empathy . . . Though he remains ambivalent about faith, the author’s convictions about solitude and creativity change fundamentally throughout this elegant, thoughtful book’ - Mark Nayler, TLS
‘Stagg writes masterfully . . . in a way that that can hold the general reader. He can evoke a sense of place and give a sense of people . . . The merit of this book is that it demonstrates how damaging that search [for retreat] can be if undertaken for the wrong reasons’
‘An intriguing exploration of withdrawal and solitude . . . An enjoyably written book on an important subject: whether it is good for an artist – or anyone else – to retreat from the world’
‘Explores the lives of three 20th-century thinkers . . . Stagg visits the places where they found quiet solace in times of crisis and examines how their solitude influenced their work and genius . . . In an age riddled with noise and distraction, The World Within feels timely. It reminds us that silence and solitude are vital for self-discovery’ 
‘In this intriguing book, Stagg identifies a number of reasons why these three figures pursued such radically different lives from most of us . . . In a relaxed and informative way, Stagg takes the reader to the places and religious houses associated with his three subjects, wondering at the back of his mind what withdrawal and retreat might mean for his own life. He is a close, attentive observer, and we get some excellent writing about places and people, with no false romanticism and some quite astringent realism . . . a readable book that looks at how three people tried to live at the extreme edge of the human spirit’
‘Guy Stagg's The World Within is a compelling and contemplative investigation into the nature of retreat, asking why writers and artists seek periods, or lives, in solitude. Like a detective, Stagg traces the routes of three 20th century figures, arriving at their former sanctuaries with a self-conscious curiosity, speaking to monks, immersing himself in landscapes, listening to the prayers and chants that sustained them. In the shadow of each story is the fractious political history of 20th century Europe – war and persecution – which deepens the book’s study, as does Stagg’s voice – candid, self-revelatory, scholarly and empathetic’
‘A luminous study. Guy Stagg penetrates as far as anyone can into the solitude of three geniuses in retreat and explores with elegance, erudition and honesty the strange territory of reclusion where emptiness and profundity meet’
‘In this thrilling exploration of the complex nature of retreat and the ever-present allure of solitude, Guy Stagg carves out his own beautiful silences and transformations with prose as luminescent as his brilliantly inquisitive spirit’
‘At once lucid and provocatively mysterious, Stagg’s meditation on the interludes in which three of the last century’s most imaginative minds chose to step back from the world offers fresh insights into their creative trajectories – and valuable clues as to how we might renew our own inner lives’
‘The writing is beautiful and pure, the ideas sophisticated but simply said. More than anything, I love the emotional truth this book explores: the tension of wanting to participate in this world, but also retreat from it. In The World Within, Stagg is speaking to the paradox at the heart of the most meaningful journeys we might take’