El fuego y el relato

El fuego y el relato - Giorgio Agamben - Sexto Piso
Publisher name: 
Sexto Piso
Year of publication: 
2016
Pages: 
112
Book size:
15x23cm

What is at stake in the literature? What is the fire that the story has lost, and which seeks to recover at all costs? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the same stubbornness as the alchemists, strive to produce in the furnace of words? What does the creation itself obstinately resist, in every act of creation, and in this way confers its strength and grace to the work? And why is the parable the secret model of all narration? As in Profanations and Nudity, Giorgio Agamben has collected in ten essays the most urgent and current motives of his research. And, as always in his writings, the obstinate interrogation of the mystery of literature, the mystery inquired here even in its most material aspects (the transformation of reading in the passage from the book to the screen) intertwines with a meditation on the other Mystery of modernity - ethical and political, thi...read more

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