The Green Child
The Green Child is the only novel by Herbert Read - the famous English poet, anarchist, and literary critic. First published by New Directions in 1948, it remains a singular work of bewildering imagination and radiance. The author considered it a philosophical myth akin to Plato's cave.Olivero, the former dictator of a South American country, has returned to his native England after faking his own assassination. On a walk he sees, through a cottage window, a green-skinned young girl tied to a chair. He watches in horror as the kidnapper forces the girl to drink lamb's blood from a cup. Olivero rescues the child, and she leads him into unknown…
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Weitere Autoren: Weinberger, Eliot (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2182-5
- EAN: 9780811221825
- Produktnummer: 19432114
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 203 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.1 cm x D1.7 cm 233 g
- Gewicht: 233
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Sir Herbert Edward Read, (1893-1968) was an English anarchist poet, and critic of literature and art. He was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism, and was strongly influenced by proto-existentialist thinker Max Stirner.
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