商品簡介
Collecting 53 pieces of prose and poetry, from the portions of the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Old Testament to writings by Margaret Atwood and James Fenton, Heinegg (English and comparative literature, Union College) attempts to show how philosophers, poets, novelists, and others have grappled with the idea of mortalism, defined as "the belief that the soul dies with the body," as well as its multifarious implications. Other authors represented include Homer, Plato, Seneca, Hadrian, David Hume, Edward Gibbon, Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy, Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, Sigmund Freud, and Virginia Woolf. The exclusion of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, two of the most prominent modern writers to engage with the idea, is somewhat surprising. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Peter Heinegg is professor of English and Comparative Literature at Union College in Schenectady, NY, and the translator of more than forty books.
