The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert

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. "