num_pages: 228
description: In 1790, while serving in the Piedmontese army, the French aristocrat Xavier de Maistre (1763-1852) was sentenced to house arrest for forty-two days, for dueling. The result was a discursive, mischievous memoir, his classic Voyage Around My Room. De Maistre's literary output began with his Voyage (1794) and ended with its sequel, Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room (1825), with a few shorter pieces in between. In addition to the Voyage and Expedition, this Selected Works includes the compelling dialogue "The Leper of the City of Aosta" (1811) and a "Preface" by Xavier's better-known older brother, the reactionary Joseph de Maistre.
language: English
title: Voyage Around My Room: Selected Works of Xavier de Maistre
titlecomplete: Voyage Around My Room: Selected Works of Xavier de Maistre
genres: Literature, Classics, Autobiography, Memoir, Philosophy, France, Biography Memoir, French Literature, Humor, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 425
publisher: New Directions Publishing