Eclipse [electronic resource] : A Novel
Keiichiro Hirano2024
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In the late fifteenth century, a young Dominican friar sets out on a journey
from Paris to Florence in search of manuscripts of pre-Christian philosophy.
Along the way, he encounters an ascetic alchemist in a small village. As the
young man falls under the spell of the alchemist’s quest for enlightenment, a
series of disasters—culminating in a total solar eclipse—strikes the village,
with profound consequences.
Keiichiro Hirano’s Eclipse was a meteoric literary sensation when it first
appeared in 1998. Its author, still an undergraduate, was hailed as a prodigy;
the book received Japan’s most prestigious literary award, the Akutagawa Prize,
and became a bestseller. Set on the eve of the Renaissance in Europe, Eclipse
depicts a society that is on the surface vastly different from modern-day Japan.
Yet its account of a challenge to dualistic binaries and ossified worldviews
holds striking contemporary resonance and philosophical depth. Taking the form
of a memoir, Eclipse ...
Main title:
Eclipse [electronic resource] : A Novel / Keiichiro Hirano
Author:
Keiichiro Hirano, Author
Imprint:
New York United States : Columbia University Press, 2024
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Audience:
General / adult
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780231560528
Language:
English
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BRN:
527817
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