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Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting a life. Books I-IV are concerned with infancy and learning to talk, schoo
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Paperback, Oxford World's Classics, 341 pages
Published
June 25th 1998
by Oxford University Press
(first published 400)
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Fær fjórar stjörnur frekar en þrjár af því textinn er svo djöfulli fallegur. Stundum fullmikið trúarrúnk en inn á milli snilldarlegir partar af manni sem hefur fundið Guð sinn sem hann elskar af öllu hjarta.
Ágústínus ritar kraftmikinn og fagran texta um leit sína að Guði og fráhvarf frá villutrú. Hann leiðir lesandann um textann og virðist í senn vera sjálfur að leita skilnings á skapara sínum, sem og að uppfræða lesendur. Ákaflega nútímalegur texti, þótt hann sé rúmlega 1600 ára gamall.
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