The Search for the Perfect Language - Making of Europe book-new-arrivals-2025-03-01 to the raft of the

to the raft of the Medusa

on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio

"A horrifyingly comic novel of ideas with its fingers jammed into the light-socket of the age" — Guardian

and excited about his birthday

The Search for the Perfect Language - Making of Europe book-new-arrivals-2025-03-01 to the raft of theThe idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia. This is an investigation into the history of that idea and of its profound influence on European thought, culture and history. From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance, it was widely believed that the language spoken