Christopher Maurer's translation of this book remained 18 weeks (2 weeks in first place) in The Washington Post's list of Nonfiction General Best Sellers
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Baltasar Gracián
Baltasar Gracián y Morales, better known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragón). His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. He is best known for his book The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), but his novel El Criticón (1651-57) is considered his greatest work.
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culture · Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher · Latin Catholic priest · philosopher · writer · university teacher · preacher · also Baltasar Gracián, Balthasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Gracián
Born 8 January 1604 · Died 6 December 1658 · Q360512
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1992· 2 entries
[1], and the English edition, which sold almost 200,000 copies, was translated into Finnish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and many other languages
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1985· 1 entry
The Aragonese village in which he was born, Belmonte de Calatayud (Belmonte del Río Perejiles) officially changed its name to Belmonte de Gracián in his honour
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1924· 1 entry
A revision and reprint of the translation into French by Abraham Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaye, with a preface by André Rouveyre, attracted a wide readership there, and was admired by André Gide
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1892· 1 entry
Was a huge commercial success, with many reprintings over the years (most recently by Shambala)
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1658· 4 entries
Died 1658-12-06.
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1604· 1 entry
Born 1604-01-08.
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