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The Fire and the Tale

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

The Fire and the Tale

By Giorgio Agamben

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About the book

What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that the parable is the secret model of all narrative, every act of creation tenaciously resists creation, thereby giving each work its strength and grace. The ten essays brought together here cover works b...Show more

Literature: history and criticism

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9781503601642

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published year

2017

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1

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The Fire and the Tale

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Paperback

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