The Eating of the Gods
An Interpretation of Greek Tragedy
Jan Kott author Boleslaw Taborski author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Northwestern University Press
Published:30th Jun '87
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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
ISBN: 9780810107458
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 430g
334 pages