The heroes of this book have a common feature. All of them are loners, single and unmarried, depriving themselves of their own will surrounded by loved ones. Throughout their lives, they kept and keep a strict “spiritual” distance, not allowing other people to enter their personal world and influence it.
The heroes of the book – rulers and entrepreneurs, scientists and philosophers, artists, writers and artists – seemed to set out to prove that loneliness not only does not interfere with the achievement of glory and success, but even contributes to this.
How can you live alone all your life? How does it attract the powers that be? Is the harsh selection of ascetics a consequence of their exorbitant pride or high humility? Fear or selfless courage? Falls or truth? And in general, is loneliness a prison or, on the contrary, a fortress?
This book is an attempt to answer all these questions, an attempt to understand the complex, contradictory inner world of outstanding loners: Mikhail Prokhorov and Elizabeth of English, Nikolai Fe …
Author
Soloviev Alexander
Editor
Dyshev A.
Publisher
Eksmo, 2013
Series
Library “Kommersant”. People
Genre
Culture and art figures, science figures
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