{"title":"Michel Ragon","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"eles-se-acreditavam-ilustres-e-imortais","title":"They believed themselves to be illustrious and immortal...","description":"In They Believed Themselves Illustrious and Immortal, Michel Ragon narrates the end of the lives of some important intellectuals who, after the decline of their work and their health, faced a tragic old age. And who, after death and a seemingly definitive oblivion, were once again recognized and idolized. How could the fate of illustrious men, artists, thinkers, world-famous, one day become obscured? In fact, Ezra Pound, Gustave Courbet, Piotr Kropotkin, Alexandre Dumas, Knut Hamsun, René Descartes, Fréhel, Alphonse de Lamartine, Françoise Sagan, and Georges Clemenceau—personalities analyzed in the book—are the subject of fascinating, often cruel or tragicomic portraits, in the twilight of their lives. Their old age—their illusions, their physical, moral, and spiritual decline—is evoked, but also their genius and glory. The subtle biographical sketches contained in the book are useful to those who want to enrich their general knowledge, take a different path in life, or avoid becoming a helpless witness to their own defeat. As did, for example, Ezra Pound, accused of dangerous ties to fascism, who admitted, after 13 years of psychiatric hospitalization in the United States and on the brink of death: \"I was wrong. I was 95% wrong. I lost my head in a storm. (...) The loss of moderation is always a misfortune.\" With a narrative spirit that is simultaneously tender and fierce, these easy-to-read pages do not limit themselves to providing life advice: they also offer impressive touches of lucidity. Wise, necessary, and profound: the kind of book that everyone needs today.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176105885948,"sku":"9788574321196","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/f6c445bc166913f9ca14900a8de75196.jpg?v=1778323220"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/michel-ragon.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}