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Well, friends, it’s been another tough year. But as we wind down 2021, it is useful to remember the good parts, the pleasures small and large that got us through. And yes, a beautifully desig…
Coming this week from Overlook, a new book exploring the mythological biography of history's first poet, Orpheus: The Song of Life by Economist editor Ann Wroe. Perhaps you've heard Orpheus's song. The story of "the young man with the lyre" has been told and retold across the ages. A king, a shaman, and a traveler through the realms of the dead, his music has the power to change landscapes, seasons, and hearts. Since the dawn of time, his figure has wandered history through the evocation of countless poets, artists, and composers. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet and lover we've seen him tantalizing Cicero and Plato, breathing new music in Gluck and Monteverdi, occupying the mind of Jung and the surreal dreams of Cocteau, and scandalizing the Fathers of the early Church. In Orpheus, Ann Wroe journeys to discover the origins of the evanescent wizard wonderer, tracing both the man and power he represents through the myriad versions of a fantastical life. Inspired by a sequence of sonnets composed by Rilke in the space of weeks beginning in 1922, Wroe draws on all available sources, both ancient and modern including those attributed to Orpheus himself, to form the coherent life story of history's first great artist and muse. Divided into seven chapters, each representing a string of Orpheus's lyre, Wroe captures the influence of her subject on a veritable pantheon of writers and musicians including Ovid, Virgil, Milton, Shelley, and Keats as well as a host of others. More than a simple retelling of the Orpheus legend, under Wroe's creative spell this genre-defying synthesis of history, biography, and criticism pays homage to a character whose life we may not fully understand, but whose legacy continues to remain foundational to our own. Advance Praise for Orpheus "Orpheus is a book of wonders, learned, playful, and passionate ... For all her studies, her wide reading, her historical diligence, Wroe's method is instinctive, as she searches for inspirations and connections across the millennia." — John Banville (The Guardian) "A transformative adventure of myth ... A book to make readers laugh, sing, and weep." — Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "The book sings in a learned, singular manner." — Publishers Weekly "Wroe combines a scholar's attention to evidence with a poet's flair for words in this startlingly original history that traces the obscure origins and tangled relationships of the Orpheus myth from ancient times through today." — Library Journal
Our narrator loves St. Petersburg at night time. He no longer feels comfortable during the day because all of the people he was used to seeing are not there. He drew his emotions from there. If they were happy, he was happy. If they were despondent, he was despondent. He felt alone when seeing new faces. He also knew the houses. As he strolled down the streets they would talk to him and tell him how they were being renovated or painted a new colour or being torn down. He lives alone in a small apartment in Saint Petersburg with only his older, non-social maid Matryona to keep him company.
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Published by Patagonia® and as featured in DamNation® (Patagonia, 2014), Lee Spencer has written “an incandescent work of natural history, an Oregon cultural treasure, and a sanctuary for aching hearts in a dark time.” -- David James Duncan, author of The River Why and My Story as Told by Water
Synopsis Expand/Collapse Synopsis The Little Town Where Time Stood Still contains two linked narratives by the incomparable Bohumil Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera has described as “Czechoslovakia’s greatest writer.” “Cutting It Short” is set before World War II in a small country town, and it relates the scandalizing escapades of Maryška, the flamboyant wife of Francin, who manages the local brewery. Maryška drinks. She rides a bicycle, letting her long hair fly. She butchers pigs, frolics in blood, and leads on the local butcher. She’s a Madame Bovary without apologies driven to keep up with the new fast-paced mechanized modern world that is obliterating whatever sleepy pieties are left over from the defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. “The Little Town Where Time Stood Still” is told by Maryška and Francin’s son and concerns the exploits of his Uncle Pepin, who holds his own against the occupying Nazis but succumbs to silence as the new post–World War II Communist order cements its colorless control over daily life. Together, Hrabal’s rousing and outrageous yarns stand as a hilarious and heartbreaking tribute to the always imperiled sweetness of lust, love, and life.
The best philosophy books published in 2022, as recommended by our philosophy editor and the creator of Philosophy Bites, Nigel Warburton
