Butes

Butes - Pascal Quignard - Sexto Piso
Publisher name: 
Sexto Piso
Year of publication: 
2011
Pages: 
96
Binding: 
Soft cover

Three men faced the spell of the mermaids, those strange birds that inevitably attracted the sailors with their song: Ulysses, who took the precaution of being bound hand and foot to the mast of his ship, listened and survived; Orpheus, who in the expedition of the Argonauts saw the mortal danger of his music and neutralized it with the notes of his zither; And Butes, navigator and companion of the previous one in the same adventure, that succumbed to the spell and threw itself of the ship. Quignard rescues the act of this marginal character of Greek mythology, "a forgotten of the memory of the world", without ever trying to decipher it. He uses it as a paradigm of the "renunciation of the society of those who speak". While Ulysses manages not to give up anything - he hears the sirens and also returns home - Butes accedes to the great silence by means of an animal music, that is again...read more

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Book: Butes

ISBN: 9788496867819
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