expertly and easily conducts his readers on a delightful and moving epic journey. Paul Binding! Independent on Sunday This volume will endure as one of the milestones markers. Gilgamesh should compel us as the well-spring of which we are inheritors.Andrew George provides an excellent critical and historical introduction. Julia Alvarez "Andrew George has skillfully bridged the chasm between a scholarly re-edition and a popular work London Review of Books Humankind's first literary achievement. The language is haunting! incantatory! at the border of song and silence. who gets to be called human lust and love loss and death. Amazingly! and perhaps depressingly ( When will they ever learn ?)! Gilgamesh tackles all the issues we are dealing with today: a bad leader and how he becomes an enlightened one (here's hoping)! environmental degradation! class and race i.e. It's my go-to whenever loss and life have tumbled me (often). Zusatztext It's among the oldest surviving works of Western civilization! from before literature was literature.
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