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The Philosopher's Joke
Paperback
RomanceClassic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781473316416
Publisher: Read & Co. Classics
Published: Jun 5 2014
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.08 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
If you could go back to your youth armed with the hard-earned wisdom of middle age, would you actually have the power to change your destiny?
In The Philosopher's Joke, Jerome K. Jerome crafts a brilliant, deeply thought-provoking, and delightfully eerie psychological fantasy that stands as one of his finest hidden gems. The narrative follows three unhappily married couples - six close friends in their forties - who find themselves reflecting bitterly on the choices, compromises, and romantic regrets of their youth. While spending the night at an ancient German inn famously rumored to have hosted the philosopher Immanuel Kant, the air becomes thick with existential speculation.
Suddenly, the boundaries of time blur. The six friends experience a mysterious, collective phenomenon: they are transported twenty years into the past, waking up in their passionate, idealistic twenty-year-old bodies, but with their future memories completely intact.
With the blueprint of their lives laid bare, they finally have the ultimate do-over to escape their mismatched marriages and steer clear of inevitable regrets. However, Jerome unleashes a masterful, ironic twist: they quickly discover that knowing the future does absolutely nothing to alter the overwhelming emotions of the present. Can logic and memory conquer raw, youthful instinct, or are we permanently chained to our fates?
The Philosopher's Joke is a must-read for fans of classic time-displacement philosophy and readers who appreciate classic British wit used to examine the deepest questions of the human heart.
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