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.
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 1964, he co-signed The Letter of the Thirty-Four protesting Polish censorship, and in 1969 he was official dismissed from the University of Warsaw where he was Professor of Polish Literature. Leaving Poland, he came to the United States and has taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1969 to the present.
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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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