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Confessions: Gabriele Tinti Confessions
Gabriele Tinti; Illustrated by Andres Serrano
R518 Discovery Miles 5 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Ruins (Paperback): Gabriele Tinti Ruins (Paperback)
Gabriele Tinti; Translated by David Graham; Foreword by Nigel Spivey; Commentary by Kenneth Lapatin, Andrew Stewart, …
R666 Discovery Miles 6 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Last Words (Paperback): Gabriele Tinti Last Words (Paperback)
Gabriele Tinti
R379 R293 Discovery Miles 2 930 Save R86 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Earth Will Come To Laugh And To Feast (Hardcover): Roger Ballen, Gabriele Tinti, Louise Salter The Earth Will Come To Laugh And To Feast (Hardcover)
Roger Ballen, Gabriele Tinti, Louise Salter
R1,188 Discovery Miles 11 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
All Over (Paperback): Gabriele Tinti All Over (Paperback)
Gabriele Tinti; Translated by Nicholas Benson
R187 R176 Discovery Miles 1 760 Save R11 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

All over is a collection of epic songs, of epinician odes for our day. The heroes praised are boxers, men the author identifies as the last able to truly astound, to induce awe. These epinician odes on Pindaric models are transformed in the making. What they sing about is not victory but defeat. The hero, the boxer, is deprived the possibility of attaining true "victory" through the gods' obliging and favorable presence - a limitation that never pertained in antiquity. This is a fragile hero. An all-too human human. He is a "simple" boxer. Nothing but a man. The epinician odes, therefore, end up being direct, and matter-of-fact, in their style and content. They wind up as epigraphs, tragedies in verse form that narrate the real exploits of workday heroes, even if the resulting events are exceptional, moving us to weep, and to feel great admiration and compassion.

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