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Till We Have Faces
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Precio:
RD$200.00
Autor:
C.S. Lewis
ISBN:
0156904365
Condición:
Usado
Formato:
Tapa blanda
Idioma:
Inglés
Editora:
Harcourt
Categoría:
Literatura, Ficción, Novelas - Cuentos
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Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold is a classic in literature
Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist...
. It is a retelling of the Greek mythGreek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece...
of Cupid and PsycheCupid and Psyche
The legend of 'Cupid and Psyche' first appeared as a digressionary story told by an old woman in Lucius Apuleius' novel, The Golden Ass, written in the second century A.D...
, which had haunted Lewis all his life, and which is itself based on a chapter of The Golden AssThe Golden Ass
The Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius, which St. Augustine referred to as The Golden Ass , is the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety....
of ApuleiusApuleius
Lucius Apuleius Platonicus was a Latin prose writer remembered most for his bawdy picaresque novel, the Metamorphoses, otherwise known as The Golden Ass...
. The first part of the book is written from the perspective of Psyche's older sister Orual, and is constructed as a long-withheld accusation against the gods. Although the book is set in the fictional kingdom of Glome, GreeceGreece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula....
is often invoked to give the story a setting in time, as well as to allow for an interplay between the HellenisticHellenistic civilization
Hellenistic civilization represents the zenith of Greek influence in the ancient world from 323 BC to about 146 BC ; note, however that Koine Greek language and Hellenistic philosophy and religion are also indisputably elements of the Roman era till Late Antiquity...
, rationalistic world-view and the powerful, 'irrational', and 'primitive' one.
The story is a re-telling of the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche, from the point of view of OrualOrual
Orual is the narrator and point-of-view character of "Till We Have Faces", a novel by C. S. Lewis . She is the beloved but internally tormented Queen of Glome, a non-Greek nation at the edges of the Hellenistic world. Lewis may have based her character largely on Mrs...
, Psyche's ugly sister (as she is seen in the usual telling).
Comentarios del vendedor:
Purchased at $495.00 in 2008 at Thesaurus. This book has slight water marks on front cover. Aside from this, the book is in excellent condition.
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Johanathan Julian
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(809) 299-5708
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