DEFORGE Bernard.
I am an ancient Greek.
The Beautiful Letters
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| N° d'inventaire | 29893 |
| Format | 12.5 x 19 |
| Détails | 176 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2016 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251445847 |
Immersed in ancient, archaic, and classical Greek literature since his early youth, Bernard Deforge always amused himself by saying that he was an ancient Greek in today's world. But he recently asked himself what he meant by that. Was it just a phrase, a joke, a wink? Was it true?
The purpose of this book is to answer this question.
To achieve this, he revisited some of the great texts that live within him, particularly the works of Homer, Hesiod, the Tragics, Pindar, Plato, and also Aristophanes. In doing so, he confronted them with the great questions of today that, like his contemporaries, haunt him. In these pages, the reader will not only have the pleasure of rediscovering the beauty of these great texts, but will also see the ongoing relevance of the questions of the ancient Greeks.
As for the answers given to them through the fundamentally iconoclastic and politically incorrect gaze of the author, he will judge for himself and react in petto .
Will he think that Bernard Deforge is indeed an ancient Greek? A lost soul in today's world, missing out on modernism? Or, on the contrary, armed with the staff of the inspired and a set of ancient keys, a pilgrim of his time?
The purpose of this book is to answer this question.
To achieve this, he revisited some of the great texts that live within him, particularly the works of Homer, Hesiod, the Tragics, Pindar, Plato, and also Aristophanes. In doing so, he confronted them with the great questions of today that, like his contemporaries, haunt him. In these pages, the reader will not only have the pleasure of rediscovering the beauty of these great texts, but will also see the ongoing relevance of the questions of the ancient Greeks.
As for the answers given to them through the fundamentally iconoclastic and politically incorrect gaze of the author, he will judge for himself and react in petto .
Will he think that Bernard Deforge is indeed an ancient Greek? A lost soul in today's world, missing out on modernism? Or, on the contrary, armed with the staff of the inspired and a set of ancient keys, a pilgrim of his time?
The purpose of this book is to answer this question.
To achieve this, he revisited some of the great texts that live within him, particularly the works of Homer, Hesiod, the Tragics, Pindar, Plato, and also Aristophanes. In doing so, he confronted them with the great questions of today that, like his contemporaries, haunt him. In these pages, the reader will not only have the pleasure of rediscovering the beauty of these great texts, but will also see the ongoing relevance of the questions of the ancient Greeks.
As for the answers given to them through the fundamentally iconoclastic and politically incorrect gaze of the author, he will judge for himself and react in petto .
Will he think that Bernard Deforge is indeed an ancient Greek? A lost soul in today's world, missing out on modernism? Or, on the contrary, armed with the staff of the inspired and a set of ancient keys, a pilgrim of his time?