The Art of Reading: From Homer to Paul Celan

by Jean Bollack

The Art of Reading is the first--long overdue--collection of essays by the French classical philologist and humanist Jean Bollack to be published in English. As the scope of the collection demonstrates, Bollack felt at home thinking in depth about two things that seem starkly different to most other thinkers. We see on the one hand the classics of Greek poetry and philosophy, including the relatively obscure but in his hands illuminating re-readings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674660196
• ISBN13: 9780674660199
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"