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War And The Iliad (Paperback, Main)
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War And The Iliad (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R441
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"War and the Iliad" is a perfect introduction to the range of
Homer's art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of
the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and
death.
Simone Weil's "The Iliad, or the Poem of Force" is one of her most
celebrated works--an inspired analysis of Homer's epic that
presents a nightmare vision of combat as a machine in which all
humanity is lost. First published on the eve of war in 1939, the
essay has often been read as a pacifist manifesto. Rachel Bespaloff
was a French contemporary of Weil's whose work similarly explored
the complex relations between literature, religion, and philosophy.
She composed her own distinctive discussion of the "Iliad" in the
midst of World War II--calling it "her method of facing the
war"--and, as Christopher Benfey argues in his introduction, the
essay was very probably written in response to Weil. Bespaloff's
account of the Iliad brings out Homer's novelistic approach to
character and the existential drama of his characters' choices; it
is marked, too, by a tragic awareness of how the Iliad speaks to
times and places where there is no hope apart from war.
This edition brings together these two influential essays for the
first time, accompanied by Benfey's scholarly introduction and an
afterword by the great Austrian novelist Hermann Broch.
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