The Stormy Petrel - Softcover

Harpur, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906069166 ISBN 13: 9781906069162

Publisher: The Squeeze Press, 2017

Synopsis

Outcast from society, his health - and heart - broken, the anguished figure of K paces the rooms of his great house, pausing to scribble furiously at a lectern...Only Victor knows that beneath K's public guise as an idle dilettante, lies a genius who has been fired by an unholy secret into creating a new kind of philosophy, where thought is passionately infused with personal experience. Based on the life of the Danish thinker, Soren Kierkegaard, who asserted that when he died 'there will not be found one single word to indicate what my life was really about', The Stormy Petrel is precisely the inside story of what his life is about - an investigation into a soul torn between natural love and a supernatural vocation, which leads inexorably to the attack that makes his name anathema for a hundred years.

About this title

About the Author:

Also author of "The Philosopher's Secret Fire" (Penguin 2002), "Mercurius", Patrick Harpur lives in Dorset.

Review:

Praise for Patrick Harpur's writing: "Sublime" - The Guardian; "Casual brilliance" - The Independent; "Deeply illuminating" - Resurgence

About this edition

• Publisher: The Squeeze Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1906069166
• ISBN 13: 9781906069162
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288