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The Poet The Warrior The Prophet

[Paperback]

by Rubem Alves

    • Author

      Rubem Alves

    • Book Format

      paperback

    • Publisher

      SCM

    • Published

      January 2002

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      Rainer Maria Rilke, Gabriel Gracia Marques, Emily Dickinson, Albert Camus, Sigmund Freud and the "Tao Te Ching" are just some of the influences on this remarkable and beautiful book, which brings poetry - the language of what it is not possible to say - to bear on theology, in such a way that it changed the author's life. Suddenly, like Lewis Carroll's Alice, Alves found himself going through the looking glass and discovering how words cannot be marshalled into conventional forms but are rather like wild birds flapping their wings refusing to be caged. In delivering the 1990 Edward Cadbury Lectures, on which the book is based, the author entered a world like that of M C Escher, many of whose enigmatic illustrations are included in the text, where all one's familiar dimensions are turned inside out. Here theology goes hand in hand with story and poetry, and creates an unforgettable atmosphere of wonder and vision - as when, for example, through the magic of Isak Dinesan's "Babette's Feast", Alves evokes a picture of 'words which are good to be eaten' - which in turn leads to a profound meditation on politics, prophecy and the theme of resurrection.

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      • Author

        Rubem Alves

      • Book Format

        paperback

      • Publisher

        SCM

      • Published

        January 2002

      • Edition

        New edition

      • Illustrator

        M.C. Escher

      • Preface by

        Jo Ind

      • Weight

        8g

      • Page Count

        162

      • Dimensions

        140 x 216 x 9 mm

      • ISBN

        9780334028963

      • ISBN-10

        0334028965

      • Eden Code

        117933

      More Information

      • Author/Creator: Rubem Alves

      • ISBN: 9780334028963

      • Publisher: SCM

      • Release Date: January 2002

      • Weight: 8g

      • Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 9 mm

      • Eden Code: 117933


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