The Metamorphoses or the Golden Donkey.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 10992 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 576 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2007 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251799933 |
Classic bilingual collection. Jubilant in the baroque on the borders of eroticism, fantasy and death, The Metamorphoses of Apuleius (2nd century), the only Latin novel of which we possess the complete text, recounts in the first person the tribulations of an overly curious naive man who has been transformed into a donkey by a failed witchcraft operation but who nonetheless thinks, and weaves in all styles the parodic plot of a human comedy whose outcome is brought about by the intervention of Isis-Queen, Most Eminent Goddess. "This book is a masterpiece. It gives me vertigo and dazzle; nature for itself, the landscape, the purely picturesque side of things are treated here in a modern way and with an ancient and Christian breath all at once which passes through the middle. It smells of incense and urine, bestiality is combined with mysticism, we are still far from that as moral pheasantry." (Gustave Flaubert, 1852).
Classic bilingual collection. Jubilant in the baroque on the borders of eroticism, fantasy and death, The Metamorphoses of Apuleius (2nd century), the only Latin novel of which we possess the complete text, recounts in the first person the tribulations of an overly curious naive man who has been transformed into a donkey by a failed witchcraft operation but who nonetheless thinks, and weaves in all styles the parodic plot of a human comedy whose outcome is brought about by the intervention of Isis-Queen, Most Eminent Goddess. "This book is a masterpiece. It gives me vertigo and dazzle; nature for itself, the landscape, the purely picturesque side of things are treated here in a modern way and with an ancient and Christian breath all at once which passes through the middle. It smells of incense and urine, bestiality is combined with mysticism, we are still far from that as moral pheasantry." (Gustave Flaubert, 1852).