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Chargement... Pyramidespar Gamal el-Ghitani
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Those who enjoy the mystic parables of the gnostics, JL Borges, Leopoldo Lugones or Jocelyn Brooke (etc.) would do well to pick up this slim volume. In a series of "texts", diminishing in length until merging, like the apex of the pyramid, into nothingness, Ghitani offers an extended meditation not only on the structures themselves, but on the mysteries of becoming and of passing away- inscrutable as the glyphs inscribed in the ancient stone. It is an attempt, like the structures themselves perhaps, to give measure to an alterity that is the form of the thing that is no thing: immeasurable, terrible, fiercely desired, shadow of the one who seeks. Two mysteries clasped at the horizon. Integrity inviolable but compelling an attempt to breach, midrash. The strategy of Samuel Beckett: "Siege laid again to the impregnable without. Eye and hand fevering after the unself. By the hand it unceasingly changes the eye unceasingly changed. Back and forth the gaze beating against unseeable and unmakeable. Truce for a space and the marks of what it is to be and be in face of. Those deep marks to show." Pyramid as text. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
With its Sufistic parables of the human condition, rendered in a style redolent of both the austere meditations of Borges and the dark engorged ruminations of Arthur C. Clark, Pyramid Texts engages the mind and beguiles the imagination. In a series of chapters each shorter than the last--so that, like their subjects, they taper ultimately into nothingness--the author evokes the obsessions that have drawn men over the centuries to the brooding presence of mankind's most ancient and mysterious monuments. Among others in a procession of exotic characters, a Moroccan seeker after knowledge spends years contemplating the pyramids in the hope that one day he will understand the mysterious writing that fitfully appears on their sides. Another waits patiently for the moment when the shadow of one will diverge from its accustomed path and bestow immortality, and the Sphinx performs a celestial dance. Pyramid Texts leads us into a world of endless passages and mysterious sighing winds, a world whose claustrophobic and shadowy spaces may be illuminated by flashes of ecstasy leading to scintillating transfigurations and dizzying annihilations. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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A series of chapters that are really short stories but read like a novel - all linked by an obsession with or a dependence on the pyramids. Scholars, explorers, lovers, and climbers. What secrets are revealed to them about/through the pyramids?
This was lovely. Each chapter tended to be shorter and shorter, until the final chapters were more like poetry. Mystical and mysterious - a good find. ( )