The Blind Bookkeeper (or Why Homer Must Be Blind) / Le Comptable Aveugle (l'Incontournable Cécité d'Homère)
Alberto Manguel
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The Blind Bookkeeper (or Why Homer Must Be Blind) / Le Comptable Aveugle (l'Incontournable Cécité d'Homère)

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Rich with literary awards and honours, Alberto Manguel extends his literary genius to address and complete a thoughtfully crafted extrapolation on a paper left unfinished by Northrop Frye in 1943. The result is a succinct yet densely multilayered examination of how various readings of Homer throughout the annals of history cast light upon the human tendency towards war rather than peace and asks what roles writing and reading play to bring the world into better equilibrium. Central to this lecture is the concept of re-binding, a word drawn from the Latin roots for the word religion, which Mang...