The Eating of the Gods by Jan Kott
In The Eating of the Gods the distinguished Polish critic Jan Kott reexamines Greek tragedy from the modern perspective. As in his earlier acclaimed Shakespeare, Our Contemporary, Kott provides startling insights and intuitive leaps which link our world to that of the ancient Greeks. The title refers to the Bacchae of Euripides, that tragedy of lust, revenge, murder, and the joy of eating raw flesh which Kott finds paradigmatic in its violence and bloodshed. Whether reflecting on Prometheus or drawing a modern parallel in Beckett's Happy Days (the final version of the Prometheus myth), Kott's vision is brilliant, his method innovative, and his sensibility consistently new. Since this book first appeared, Kott's connections between ancient and modern have become even more compelling in their immediacy.
He sights at Greek tragedy along the smoking chimneys of Auschwitz. . . No 20th century [critic] could come closer to making Sophocles a contemporary." —Melvin Maddocks, Time
Jan Kott was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1914. In 1969 he left Poland for the United States. He received the 1985 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for The Theater of Essence (Northwestern University Press, 1984).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780810107458 |
| ISBN 10 | 0810107457 |
| Title | The Eating of the Gods |
| Author | Jan Kott |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
| Year published | 1987-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 334 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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