Desiaterik, V.I., Dr., Compiler	Zlatousty ili gde zhe vy, sovremennye Demosfeny? M., Fond imeni I. D. Sytina, 2001. [192 p., ill., index.] (Programma: miniatiurnye knigi [Series])	€40,00

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48 mo (84 mm x 60 mm), publisher´s binding with gilt tooled lettering on front cover designed by A. A. Golovkina. MINT. RARE. Collection of aphorisms and epigrams by Ninety and Two Russian, European and American authors. Twenty and Eight page preface by Dr. V.I.Desiatirik. Fourty page essay by compilers. Full page illustrations by A. A. Golovkina. Valuable index. The book was printed within the frame of state sponsored Foundation 'Aski-Fond razvitiia otechestvennogo knigoizdaniia imeni I. D. Sytina'. Series 'Miniatiurnye knigi'. Contributors: Vasilenko, L.V., Zhestova, G. A., Sapronova, N.F. , Desiaterik, V.I., Dr. Illustrations by A. A. Golovkina. Valuable supplement to: Raize, E. S., compiler. Aforizmy. L., 1964; Russkaia epigramma. [ Compiled by V. V. Vasil´ev] М., 1990 and to two-volume collection of aphorisms by Babkin, A. M., Shendetsov, V.V. Slovar´ inoiazychnykh vyrazhenii i slov. M., 1981-1987. 'Aphoristic collections, sometimes known as wisdom literature, have a prominent place in the canons of several ancient societies, such as the Sutra literature of India, the Biblical Ecclesiastes, Islamic Hadith, The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, Hesiod's Works and Days, the Delphic maxims, and Epictetus' Handbook. Aphoristic collections also make up an important part of the work of some modern authors, such as Josemaría Escrivá (compiled from other spiritual authors), Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Arthur Schopenhauer, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Franz Kafka, Elias Canetti, Karl Kraus, Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, Andrzej Majewski, Mikhail Turovsky, [Lev Kuklin, Iurii Nikulin-vk], Antonio Porchia, Celia Green, Robert A. Heinlein, Blaise Pascal, E. M. Cioran, Oscar Wilde and Nassim Nicholas Taleb. [...] Two influential collections of aphorisms published in the 20th century were The Uncombed Thoughts by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (in Polish), and Itch of Wisdom by Mikhail Turovsky (in Russian and English).'- WIKIPEDIA.