In works of Western literature ranging from Homer's "Odyssey "to
Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? "the giving and taking of
hospitality is sometimes pleasurable, but more often perilous.
Heffernan traces this leitmotiv through the history of our greatest
writings, including Christ's Last Supper, Macbeth's murder of his
royal guest, and Camus's short story on French colonialism in Arab
Algeria. By means of such examples and many more, this book
considers what literary hosts, hostesses, and guests do "to "as
well as "for "each other. In doing so, it shows how often treachery
rends the fabric of trust that hospitality weaves.
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