The Blind Bookkeeper (or Why Homer Must Be Blind) / Le comptable aveugle (l'Incontournable ccit d'Homre) (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Goose Lane Editions, Fredricton, 2008
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Paperback. Rich with literary awards and honours, Alberto Manguel extends his literary genius to address and complete a thoughtfully crafted extrapolation on a paper left unfinished by Northrop Frye in 1943. The result is a succinct yet densely multilayered examination of how various readings of Homer throughout the annals of history cast light upon the human tendency towards war rather than peace and asks what roles writing and reading play to bring the world into better equilibrium. Central to this lecture is the concept of re-binding, a word drawn from the Latin roots for the word religion, which Manguel posits is the essential definition of poetry. Homers writings, the point of origin of all written verse, are also the first written instance of the binding of imagined, written, and read realities. The semantics of Homers name and the literal and figurative ramifications of his blindness are investigated as Manguel builds the scaffold for unveiling our own blindness through our desire to read Homer in our own image. We are left to examine our own assumptions.Comble de prix litteraires et dhonneurs, Alberto Manguel prete son genie litteraire a letude et au parachevement dune extrapolation songee que Northrop Frye avait laissee en plan en 1943. Il en resulte une analyse succincte mais en replis serres des multiples lectures dHomere leguees par les siecles, qui revele comment ces interpretations eclairent la propension humaine a la guerre plutot qua la paix, ce qui le mene a sinterroger sur le role que jouent lecriture et la lecture quand il sagit de creer un monde plus equilibre. La notion de re-lier, un mot dont les racines latines sont les memes que le mot religion, est au coeur de cette conference, et Manguel en fait la definition essentielle de la poesie. Les ecrits dHomere, point dorigine de toute la poesie ecrite, fournissent aussi la premiere occurrence dun lien entre les realites imaginees, ecrites et lues. La valeur semantique du nom dHomere et les repercussions concretes et figurees de sa cecite font partie des elements que Manguel scrute pour fonder son evocation de notre aveuglement a nous quand nous insistons pour lire Homere a notre propre image. Nous navons plus qua remettre nos hypotheses. In 1943, Northrop Frye wrote a paper, left unfinished, on "the state of the world." His ideas of what to expect after the end of the war and the role that literature might play in a time of peace, are the starting point for a meditation on the roles of writer and reader, and what kind of vision is required of them to explore and depict the world. Homer is the archetype of the writer who can see into the future through his knowledge of the past. But how has Homer been read throughout the centuries by generations caught up in the counterpoint of war and peace? And, following Frye's exploration, can Homer teach us to become better readers? Why Homer Must Be Blind/ La cA(c)citA(c) incontournable d'HomA]re is the third Antonine Maillet-Northrop Frye Lecture, sponsored by the Northrop Frye International Literary Festival and the UniversitA(c) de Moncton. It was presented on April 26, 2008, in Moncton, New Brunswick, as part of the 2008 Frye Festival. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- The Blind Bookkeeper (or Why Homer Must Be Blind) / Le comptable aveugle (l'Incontournable ccit d'Homre) (Paperback)
- Author
- Alberto Manguel
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions, Fredricton
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0864925166
- ISBN 13
- 9780864925169
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About the Author
Internationally acclaimed as an anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, and editor, Alberto Manguel is the bestselling author of several award-winning books, including A Dictionary of Imaginary Places, with Gianni Guadalupi, and A History of Reading. Manguel grew up in Israel, where his father was the Argentinian ambassador. In the mid-1980s, Manguel moved to Toronto where he lived for twenty years. Manguel's novel, News from a Foreign Country Came, won the McKitterick Prize in 1992. In 2000, Manguel moved to the Poitou-Charentes region of France, where he and his partner purchased and renovated a medieval farmhouse.
Célébrité internationale à plus d’un titre ― il est anthologiste, traducteur, essayiste, romancier et éditeur ― Alberto Manguel est l’auteur du Dictionnaire des lieux imaginaires, en collaboration avec Gianni Guadalupi, et d’une Histoire de la lecture, entre autres succès de librairie. Manguel a grandi en Israël où son père était ambassadeur de l’Argentine. Au milieu des années 1980, Manguel s’installe à Toronto où il vivra pendant vingt ans. Il reçoit le McKitterick Prize en 1992 pour son roman News from a Foreign Country Came. Depuis 2000, Manguel habite la région française de Poitou-Charentes, dans une maison de ferme du Moyen-Âge qu’il a achetée et remise à neuf avec son compagnon."About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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