High-tension English verse that serves eloquently to convey the passions of his Hughes has replaced Racine ’s alexandrines with a lean, Tragic infatuation, a tale of love strong enough to bring down a kingdom. Has come to be known as one of the great dramas of The dying queen’s obsessive love for her stepson, Hippolytus, As interpreted by playwright Jean Racine (1639-99), the story of The myth of Phaedra, or Phèdre, is one of the most powerful in all of classical Writers and is currently interested in the literature and experience of
Sharp has published on various 20 th-century Austrian and German
Post-Holocaust Jewish community, published his first fiction in 1994 as aĬollection of short stories, Papirnik. Very fragile sense of worth and belonging. Undermined by history, are capable of passing on to their offspring only a The first generation of survivors, their own sense of identity severely The plot of The Search for M revolves around the lives in contemporary Vienna of two generations ofĮuropean Jews, the survivors of the Holocaust and their children. Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought. The Search for M [ Suche nachĪnd afterword Francis M. Through him we encounter the Marquise de Pompadour, Voltaire, Hume, Lavoisier, Diderot, Mozart, Rousseau, and such colorful secondary characters as an innkeeper's bawdy daughter, a lust-ridden priest, and a political zealot who dies accused of attempted regicide. As he tries to reconcile the sanguine promises of the Enlightenment with the chilling prophecies of his visions, he comes to know virtually every important figure of his time. Rasero settles in Paris, the hub of European intellectual life. Strangely enough, Rasero is also orgasmically clairvoyant, given at the moment of carnal release to apocalyptic visions in which he beholds what we recognize as the horrors of our own century: the Holocaust, the atomic bomb, the Vietnam War. And what a peculiar hero Rasero is - bald since birth, sexually and intellectually precocious at his wet nurse's breast, passionate in manhood, tolerant, warmhearted. The soul is that of Fausto Rasero, a young Spaniard hungry for wisdom. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Eighteenth-century Europe, where the neoclassical ideals of balance and harmony are in tragic contrast with the squalor and violence of daily life, where the notion of a social contract emerges against a background of public torture and shameless political cynicism, where unprecedented advances in the sciences are besieged by militant superstition and religious bigotrythis is the Enlightenment, and Francisco Rebolledo's astonishing novel chronicles a soul's voyage through its hazards.
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