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Title	:	The Modern Man: A philosophical divagation about the evil banality of daily acts
Author	:	Cristiane Serruya
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 57 pages
Published	:	May 27th 2013 by CreateSpace (first published November 1988)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Psychology

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“Men who are rebelling and cursing; who hate each other because they want back everything they voluntarily left behind, who flog and torture themselves trying to remember everything that they made a point of forgetting.”

“The Modern Man is the contradiction” reflects Cristiane Serruya, author of this brief if genial philosophical divagation on the frivolity of postmodern society. Oozing with delicate lyricism and haiku styled short sentences, Cristiane paints a timeless landscape with expert brushstrokes, where a single second or the apparently eternity of a life levitate with the lightness of humankind insignificance.
Recurring themes as apathetic narcissism, consumerism, desertion of traditional values, mass culture and indifference, the loss of historical consciousness and the discrediting of the future, the hollowness of hedonism and its focus on fashion and ephemeral instant pleasure commingle in this subtle mouthful of invigorating quest for the real meaning of existence.
Lost amidst poetic meanderings inside the consciousness of a limited human mind, thoughts of loss, consuming regret and struggle against the anxiety derived from the implacability of the passage of time, the reader becomes a witness of a humbling cleansing of the soul, where the power of nature and a renewed hope reborn out of the ashes can atone for all the wandering of our fallible human spirits. Following the river of one’s heart is only for the courageous, but it might be the only way to get back home.

“He thought that if he stood on the bottom rail of the bridge, and leant over, and watched the river slipping slowly away beneath him, then he would suddenly know everything that there was to be known.” A.A. Milne.

Note: First written in 1988 this essay reflects the influence of a Hannah Arendt’s ideologies on the nature of power, politics, democracy and its influences on human condition, which left a deep track in the author’s professional career as a lawyer in the forthcoming years.
I was given a free copy of this work in exchange for an honest review.

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Original Title:	O Homem Moderno
ISBN:	148952455X (ISBN13: 9781489524553)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Readers' Favorite Book Award for Short Story - Non Fiction (Bronze Medal) (2013), Literary Classics International Book Awards for Special Interest - Inspirational / Motivational (Gold Award) (2013)

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Very Interesting and well written. Make's you think about the topics differently.

Um livro que apresenta um ponto de vista interessante que me fez pensar. Contudo, a minha parte preferida é aquela que descreve o contexto em que esta história foi escrita quando a autora tinha apenas 18 anos. Interessante!

I have read Cristiane Serruya's works before, the two first installments of the Trust trilogy. I was not expecting what I read in 27 pages (this book is bilingual and the last part is in Portuguese).I'm shocked. I'm stunned. And I'm in awe.This is not a short philosophical story. This is a profound and deep sight of what the society and humankind has become. Anyone dies by your side? His problem. A girl is raped? She provoked it. And it goes on because we have to catch your tram to go to work,

Very well-written and insightful book.I'll recommend it to everyone.

Edição atualizada pela autora, nos seguintes capítulos: Agradecimentos e Uma Pequena História; Sobre a Autora; e, Sobre Hannah Arendt, Um Pequeno Resumo. após a leitura do livro de Hannah Arendt "Eichmann in Jerusalem."

This book makes you think deep in the recesses of your mind and lets you know what could happen when we take this for granted in your life. It also makes you think of what could become of our world with the actions that we preform every day!

Wow, Cristiane Serruya, Im blown away. The Modern Man is a philosophical examination of the often dark platitudes of human beings.Excerpt: His thirst for power and his selfishness took away his wisdom, freedom, humanity, but gifted him with the monotonous security of the known, the unchanging, the unfeeling. Was it really a gift? Now, the man is alone in a room without human warmth, isolated by technology that solves everything, that does everything.Just this morning I was sitting in an American