Gilgamesh's Snake and Other Poems (e-bog) af Iskander, Ghareeb
Iskander, Ghareeb (forfatter)

Gilgamesh's Snake and Other Poems e-bog

154,35 DKK (inkl. moms 192,94 DKK)
The Epic of Gilgamesh is perhaps the greatest surviving work of early Mesopotamian literature. According to legend, Gilgamesh built the city walls of Uruk, modern-day Iraq, to protect his people from external threats. Although the epic records events from more than four thousand years ago, those events echo many of the social and cultural concerns of Iraq today.In this luminous bilingual collec...
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Forfattere Iskander, Ghareeb (forfatter), Iskander, Ghareeb (oversætter)
Udgivet 18 april 2016
Genrer Poetry
Sprog English
Format pdf
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780815653745
The Epic of Gilgamesh is perhaps the greatest surviving work of early Mesopotamian literature. According to legend, Gilgamesh built the city walls of Uruk, modern-day Iraq, to protect his people from external threats. Although the epic records events from more than four thousand years ago, those events echo many of the social and cultural concerns of Iraq today.In this luminous bilingual collection of poems, Ghareeb Iskander offers a personal response to the epic. Iskander's modern-day Gilgamesh is a nameless Iraqi citizen who witnessed the fall of the dictatorship, who exists in a constant state of threat, and who dreams, not about eternity, but simply about life. While Gilgamesh was searching for the elixir of life, Iskander's hero is searching for consolation.