Alain Gheerbrant (1920–2013)

This book part narrative and analysis and part documentary evidence, discusses two central events which crystallized the issues: the Pope's visit to Bogota in Columbia and the Medellin conference of the Church hierarchy. Analysing these crucial events he shows why the Church can no longer resist what it once vilified as atheistic communism and how this can be justified in religious terms.

Literalmente meu livro de cabeceira, é uma leitura que nunca termina, por seu conteúdo arquetípico antropologicamente orientado é um livro essencial para o estudo da literatura, cinema, psicologia e artes plásticas em geral. Recomendadíssimo.

Every writer and poet needs a book like this--bulky, maybe, for a paperback--but it is FILLED with ideas and explanations of thousands of symbols. A useful tool for writers and readers!

An essential part of my writer's toolbox.