The Art of Resisting: How the Aeneid Teaches Us How to Get Through a Crisis
GALLIMARD| N° d'inventaire | 26126 |
| Format | 140 x 200 mm |
| Détails | 272 p., PAPERBACK. |
| Publication | PARIS, 2021 |
| Etat | NINE |
| ISBN | 9782072930829 |
The Aeneid is not a poem for peacetime. Its verses are not appropriate when everything is going smoothly. Its song is intended for the moment when the urgency is felt to find our way back to an after that astounds us by its difference from the before in which we have always lived. To put it in meteorological language: reading the Aeneid is warmly recommended in the midst of a hurricane, and if possible without an umbrella. For Aeneas no longer has a homeland to set sail for: he moves away from the ruins of his own, his father on his back, in search of a new beginning, armed with his most precious possessions. His capacity to resist and the strength of his hope are exemplary and they constitute a lesson of striking relevance today.
The Aeneid is not a poem for peacetime. Its verses are not appropriate when everything is going smoothly. Its song is intended for the moment when the urgency is felt to find our way back to an after that astounds us by its difference from the before in which we have always lived. To put it in meteorological language: reading the Aeneid is warmly recommended in the midst of a hurricane, and if possible without an umbrella. For Aeneas no longer has a homeland to set sail for: he moves away from the ruins of his own, his father on his back, in search of a new beginning, armed with his most precious possessions. His capacity to resist and the strength of his hope are exemplary and they constitute a lesson of striking relevance today.