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Survival of the Fireflies

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Survival of the Fireflies

By Georges Didi-Huberman

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Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism Dante once spoke, in his Divine Comedy, of the miniscule lights, in the twenty-sixth canto of the Inferno, who, contrary to the great lights that shined bright within the sublime circles of Paradise, frailly wandered in the somber pockets of glimmering light within the darkness. Pliny the Elder was once preoccupied by a type of fly named pyrallis or pyrotocon, which was only able to fly within fire: \u201cas long as it remains in th...Show more

Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

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9781517905743

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Published year

2018

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Survival of the Fireflies

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