The Fire and the Tale by Giorgio Agamben PAPERBACK 9781503601642

The Fire and the Tale\nby Giorgio Agamben\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Giorgio Agamben\nTitle: The Fire and the Tale\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literature: history and criticism\nPublisher: Stanford University Press\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9781503601642\nISBN-10: 1503601641\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nWhat is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that the parable is the secret model of all narrative, every act of creation tenaciously resists creatio.