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The Lord Chandos Letter

by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Format:  Paperback
Published:  December 2004
Category:  Short Stories (single author)
Publisher:  Pub Group West
Pages:  128

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In The Lord Chandos Letter, the author conjures a figure from the English Renaissance in order to write about a peculiarly modern crisis of the spirit. In this cryptic, haunting, at times hallucinated document, a young lord writes for the last time to his patron, Sir Francis Bacon, the founding father of modern scientific empiricism. The lord describes a mysterious affliction which has left him entirely bereft of words: the abstractions \"which the tongue must enlist . . . have disintegrated in my mouth.\" The book evokes a state of final internal exile, of death in life.

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