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Chaos and Splendor & Other Essays: Volume 1
Contributor(s): Lourenço, Eduardo (Author), Veloso, Carlos (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0972256113     ISBN-13: 9780972256117
Publisher: Tagus Press
OUR PRICE: $18.95  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: June 2002
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | European - Spanish & Portuguese
- History | World - General
- Literary Criticism | Books & Reading
Dewey: 869.442
LCCN: 2002041253
Age Level: 22-UP
Grade Level: 17-UP
Series: Adamastor Book
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.7" L (0.90 lbs) 192 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
 
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Seen from the dawn of the twenty-first century, the essays of Eduardo Louren o (b. 1923) are a philosophical arch that spans the twentieth century, analyzing it and revealing its imaginary borders, dreams, contradictions, ghosts and angels. The symbol the Portuguese essayist derives from the previous century, that is, the figure that best portrays the cultural oscillations of that century, is the labyrinth. The act of searching for knowledge impels a person to enter a labyrinth, insofar as he tends to grasp meanings from different sources and phenomena. The more he tries to find his way out of the labyrinth -- to transform doubts into certainty -- the more he finds himself immersed in contradiction, in a continuous re-memorization of his inner ghosts. Literary works are the best guides Louren o has found to free himself from the maze of culture, although he is aware that his literary friends may also turn out to be his enemies and nightmares. His philosophical background allows him to deal with literature in an emotional, passionate way -- his literary analyses are, most of the time, starting points for mythological interpretations of Portugal and Europe that merge poetry, sociology, anthropology, political science, and art history.
 
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