The Human Tragicomedy: the Reception of Apuleius' Golden Ass in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century

The Human Tragicomedy: the Reception of Apuleius' Golden Ass in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Brill
Country
NL
Published
5 September 2024
Pages
246
ISBN
9789004695832

The Human Tragicomedy: the Reception of Apuleius’ Golden Ass in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century

Does the story of Lucius, a curious and lustful young man who is magically transformed into an ass, have anything to teach us today? Does it have a serious, philosophical and religious meaning, or is it just a form of literary play, full of adventures, magic, sex, violence, and religion? This volume studies the reception of the novel in the last hundred years, showing also the most promising and diverse research perspectives for the future. Apuleius claimed that a philosopher must possess a mirror; perhaps, his novel is a mirror for us to look into.

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