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Eidolon (Paperback)
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Eidolon (Paperback)
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List price R417
Loot Price R364
Discovery Miles 3 640
You Save R53 (13%)
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Partly a modern revision of the Helen myth, Eidolon meditates on
the visible and invisible forces of Western civilisation from
classical antiquity to present-day America. An Eidolon is an image,
a ghost, a spectre, a scapegoat. It is a device, like deus ex
machina, to deal with the problem of narrative, specifically
Helen's supposed deceit and infidelity. The Eidolon, as a device,
is something beauteous and beguiling - as a thing, or as a
preoccupation, it is the siren song to the poet who listens for
silence. Who gives Helen her voice and what need unites it into a
single, constant loathsome creature? Helen is as much the city of
Troy as its famed plains and high walls. It might as well be Helen
smouldering on the great pyre of defeat, even though she escapes
unscathed in Homer's Odyssey and is restored to her husband's side
by the eidolon's unique guarantee of her chastity.
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