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Sarastro's Cave - Letters from the Recent Past (Hardcover)
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Sarastro's Cave - Letters from the Recent Past (Hardcover)
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I hoped to use these letters to make a book, in which they would
retain their character as individual utterances, although they
would become parts of a larger whole."" So writes Clovis Mendling,
professor of history at a Southern university, bequeathing his
letters as an unfinished project to a friend shortly before he
mysteriously disappears. Much is at stake in these letters for
Mendling, as they reflect on a personal crisis in which he
discovers philosophical, political, musical, and literary
significance. By making an epistolary novel out of his letters he
hopes to prove to himself that he is truly a living human and not a
mechanical simulation. At the same time, his moral and intellectual
world unravels as he questions the tenets of Enlightenment thought,
especially Freemasonry, his scholarly focus. Through these accounts
of his travels in China and Europe, a balletic inspiration in the
classroom, a spectral vision on the streets of New Orleans, and
insights drawn from opera, drama, and film, the reader learns how
Mendling overcomes the quandary of whether he is human, but finally
succumbs to a deeper challenge to his ordered existence: the pull
of eros. Although moved by the music of Mozart's Sarastro, teacher
of self-mastery and inner harmony through love, a bewitched and
confused Mendling plunges into the mind's netherworld.
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