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Loading... In Praise of Truth (1991)by Torgny Lindgren
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. So deliberately arty and monothematic, I can't help but admire Lindgren for his intense focus and creativity. Metaphors abound in this slim novel but they all lead to the same destination. The intrigue and satisfaction for me was seeing how many ways Lindgren could ask the same question in two hundred pages, what is real? exactly the type of book I wanted to read in a Harvill Press. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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The ancient hero's quest for glory offers metaphors for our own struggles to reach personal integrity and wholeness. In this compelling book, Van Nortwick traces the heroic journeys in three seminal works of ancient epic poetry, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer's Iliad, and Virgil's Aeneid. Inparticular, he focuses on the relationship of the hero to one or more second selves, or alter egos, showing how the poems address central truths about the cost of heroic self-assertion: that the pursuit of glory can lead to alienation from one's own deepest self, and that spiritual wholeness canonly be achieved by confronting what appears, at first, to be the very negation of that self. With his unique combination of literary, psychological, and spiritual insights, Van Nortwick demonstrates the relevance of ancient literature to enduring human problems and to contemporary issues. Somewhere I Have never Travelled will interest anyone who wishes to explore the roots of human behavior and the relationship between life and art. No library descriptions found. |
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