Book · 1957 · Nonfiction

The Poetics of Space

Name: The Poetics of Space
Author: Gaston Bachelard

Publisher not found · 268 pages

★ 6.6 editorial score

Bachelard reads the house as our first universe: the cellar holds our fears, the attic our reveries, and drawers, shells, and corners hold the rest. Architects have designed by it since the 1960s.

Genre

Philosophy

Subject

Home Poetry Memory

Time

1957

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