The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century

Resumen del libro

A profound and delightful jeu d'esprit of a book, mixing biography, etymology, cultural history and quixotic scientific experiments. Aldersey-Williams pulls the unfairly neglected yet enormously influential writer Thomas Browne out of the obscure pages of Pseudodoxia Epidemica and into the 21st century, to apply his generous curiosity and rational intelligence to the vagaries and contradictions of life today. Browne has had some impressive fans (Sebald, Woolf, Borges, Poe, Marias) but this book will revive him, bringing his extraordinary genius to a whole new audience.

Biografía del autor

Hugh Aldersey-Williams es periodista y gestor cultural especializado en materias comola arquitectura, el diseño,la identidad nacional yla ciencia. Ha escrito libros que versaban sobre temas tan dispares como el Buckminsterfullereno ola arquitectura zoomórfica y ha sido comisario de distintas exposiciones en lugares tan emblemáticos como el Victoria and Albert Museum de Londres o el Moma de Nueva York.