Gilgamesh
The story of Gilgamesh, an ancient epic poem written on clay tablets in a cuneiform alphabet, is as fascinating and moving as it is crucial to our ability to fathom the time and the place in which it was written. Gardner's version restores the poetry of the text and the lyricism that is lost in the earlier, almost scientific renderings. The principal theme of the poem is a familiar one: man's persistent and hopeless quest for immortality. It tells of the heroic exploits of an ancient ruler of the walled city of Uruk named Gilgamesh. Included in its story is an account of the Flood that predates the Biblical version by centuries. Gilgamesh and…
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Weitere Autoren: Maier, John (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-307-76082-1
- EAN: 9780307760821
- Produktnummer: 15734669
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'384 KB
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John Gardner was accorded wide praise for his works of imagination, of criticism, and of scholarship. He was born in 1933 in Batavia, New York. Among the universities at which he taught are Oberlin, San Francisco State, Northwestern, Southern Illinois, Bennington, and the State University of New York-Bennington. The Art of Fiction was completed before his death in 1982.
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