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    The Story of My Misfortunes (or: Historia Calamitatum)
    The Story of My Misfortunes (or: Historia Calamitatum)
    The Story of My Misfortunes (or: Historia Calamitatum)
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    The Story of My Misfortunes (or: Historia Calamitatum)

    Written by Pierre Abélard

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    Autobiographies from remote historical periods can be especially fascinating.Modes of self-presentation vary greatly across the centuries, as of course doesthe very concept of Self.

    Peter Abelard, the medieval philosopher and composer, here gives a concisebut vivid survey of his notoriously calamitous life. The work is couched in theform of a letter to an afflicted friend. Abelard's abrasively competitive, oftenarrogant personality emerges at once in the brief Foreword, where he informs hiscorrespondent: "(I)n comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover thatyours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily."(Summary by Martin Geeson)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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