The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World
In the first Quarterly Essay for 2011, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life?
With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about contentment and the self. In considering the happy life — what it is, and what makes it possible — David Malouf returns to the “highest wisdom” of the classics, looks at how, thanks to Thomas Jefferson’s way with words, happiness became a “right”, and examines joy in the flesh as depicted by Rubens and Rembrandt. In a world become ever larger and impersonal, he finds happiness in an unlikely place. This is an essay to savour and reflect upon by one of Australia’s greatest novelists.
- Author
- David Malouf
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 95
- Series
- Quarterly Essay
- Publisher
- Black Inc.
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781863955195
- Genres
- philosophy, australia
- Release date
- 2011
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