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The Art of Reading - From Homer to Paul Celan (Paperback)
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The Art of Reading - From Homer to Paul Celan (Paperback)
Series: Hellenic Studies Series
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The Art of Reading is the first-long overdue-collection of essays
by the French classical philologist and humanist Jean Bollack to be
published in English. As the scope of the collection demonstrates,
Bollack felt at home thinking in depth about two things that seem
starkly different to most other thinkers. We see on the one hand
the classics of Greek poetry and philosophy, including the
relatively obscure but in his hands illuminating re-readings of
Greek philosophy by the doxographers. Then, on the other hand,
there is modern, including contemporary, poetry. The author of
monumental commentaries on the Oedipus Tyrannos of Sophocles and on
the fragments of Empedocles, Bollack cultivated in himself and in a
generation of students (academics and others) a way to read both
sets of texts closely that is as uncompromising and demanding of
the interpreter as it is of the reader of the interpretation. The
results, which this wide-ranging but compact collection brings to
mind, are designed to get beyond flat and cliched approaches to
familiar works and to awaken the reader anew to the aesthetics, the
complexity, and the intelligence that careful reconstruction of the
text can bring to light.
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