The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve - The Story That Created Us
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| Verlag | Norton |
| Auflage | 2018 |
| Seiten | 432 |
| Format | 14,2 x 20,8 x 2,6 cm |
| Gewicht | 359 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0393356264 |
| EAN | 9780393356267 |
| Bestell-Nr | 39335626EA |
Stephen Greenblatt tells the life history of the account of the first man and the first woman - central to all three of the world's monotheistic religions and the object of innumerable representations by painters, sculptors and poets - which was the dominant story of the human race for thousands of years.
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Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve explores the enduring story of humanity's first parents. Comprising only a few ancient verses, the story of Adam and Eve has served as a mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole, long history of our fears and desires, as both a hymn to human responsibility and a dark fable about human wretchedness. Tracking the tale into the deep past, Greenblatt uncovers the tremendous theological, artistic, and cultural investment over centuries that made these fictional figures so profoundly resonant in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim worlds and, finally, so very "real to millions of people even in the present. With the uncanny brilliance he previously brought to his depictions of William Shakespeare and Poggio Bracciolini (the humanist monk who is the protagonist of The Swerve), Greenblatt explores the intensely personal engagement of Augustine, Dürer, and Milton in this mammoth project of collective creation, while he also limns the diversity of the story's offspring: rich allegory, vicious misogyny, deep moral insight, and some of the greatest triumphs of art and literature.