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The Tomb of Oedipus - Why Greek Tragedies Were not Tragic (Paperback)
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The Tomb of Oedipus - Why Greek Tragedies Were not Tragic (Paperback)
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If Greek tragedies are meant to be so tragic, why do they so often
end so well? Here starts the story of a long and incredible
misunderstanding. Out of the hundreds of tragedies that were
performed, only 32 were preserved in full. Who chose them and why?
Why are the lost ones never taken into account? This extremely
unusual scholarly book tells us an Umberto Eco-like story about the
lost tragedies. By arguing that they would have given a radically
different picture, William Marx makes us think in completely new
ways about one of the major achievements of Western culture. In
this very readable, stimulating, lively, and even sometimes funny
book, he explores parallels with Japanese theatre, resolves the
enigma of catharsis, sheds a new light on psychoanalysis. In so
doing, he tells also the story of the misreadings of our modernity,
which disconnected art from the body, the place, and gods. Two
centuries ago philosophers transformed Greek tragedies into an
ideal archetype, now they want to read them as self-help handbooks,
but all are equally wrong: Greek tragedy is definitely not what you
think, and we may never understand it, but this makes it matter all
the more to us.
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