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"The notebooks reveal Joubert as an author of great clarity and depth, perhaps France's first truly modern writer. The elusive French luminary Joseph Joubert is a great explorer of the mind's open spaces. Edited and translated by Paul Auster, this selection from Joubert's notebooks introduces a master of the enigmatic who seeks ""to call everything by its true name"" while asking us to ""remember everything is double."" ""Joubert speaks in whispers,"" Auster writes. ""One must draw very close to hear what he is saying."""

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'He was one of the first completely modern writers, preferring the center to the sphere, sacrificing results to the discovery of other conditions, and writing not in order to add one book to another but to take command of the point from which it seemed to him all books issued' Maurice Blanchot

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Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) was a philosopher who published little during his lifetime, preferring to record his thoughts in his voluminous notebooks. After Joubert's death, his friend, Chateaubriand, distributed these writings, which won Joubert posthumous fame and influence. Paul Auster is the author of ten novels, including The New York Trilogy and Brooklyn Follies. He lives with his wife and daughter in Brooklyn.

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