The fire and the tale

Resource Information

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Label

The fire and the tale

Statement of responsibility

Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Lorenzo Chiesa

Creator

• Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-

Contributor

• Chiesa, Lorenzo

Author

• Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-

Translator

• Chiesa, Lorenzo

Subject

• Literature -- Philosophy
• Literature -- Aesthetics
• Literature -- Aesthetics
• Literature -- Philosophy

Language

• eng
• ita
• eng

Summary

"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 by figures ranging from Aristotle to Paul Klee and illustrate what urgently drives Agamben's current research. As is often the case with his writings, their especial focus is the mystery of literature, of reading and writing, and of language as a laboratory for conceiving an ethico-political perspective that places us beyond sovereign power." --Amazon.com

Member of

• Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
• Fuoco e il racconto

Cataloging source

CSt/DLC

Dewey number

801/.93

Index

no index present

Language note

Translated from the Italian

LC call number

PN45

LC item number

.A25813 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Meridian: crossing aesthetics