Blue Cathedral: Contemporary Short Fiction - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1888996218 ISBN 13: 9781888996210

Casa editrice: Red Hen Pr, 2000

Riassunto

We began in the dark, and from the dark, we created myths, stories, the children of Israel wandering in the wilderness, Odysseus returning home, Buddha sitting lotus quiet. We had a few good stories to sustain our wanderings.

Over several thousand years, the fire of myths began to burn out. Or we burned them out. We burned Troy, the prophets, and Joan of Arc, and finally, as one myth after another descended onto the pile of ashes, we found ourselves outside the church, the cathedral, the pyramid, the synagogue, with no path, and no journey. No Holy Grail to seek for, no reason to seek a grail. We pick up the skull of the storyteller, turn it over in our hands, fumbling for the eye sockets that used to see something. We don't know how to handle the skull, with what ritual to bury it, what song to sing for the dead or the living. The stories in this collection, address this place in which we've found ourselves, more aware of the dead than the living. The dead had their myths and their fire.

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Book by CULL GALE MARK KATE

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Red Hen Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1888996218
• ISBN 13: 9781888996210
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 355
• Redattore: Cull Mark E., Gale Kate
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile