Juan Benet (1927–1993)
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Fonte dell'immagine: J. L. Cabanyal (Claude at findagrave.com)
Opere di Juan Benet
Teatro. (Anastas o el origen de la constitución, Agonia confutans, Un caso de conciencia) (1971) 3 copie
Una meditación 2 copie
Paginas impares 1996 1 copia
Despues 1970 1 copia
Viaje de invierno , Un 1 copia
A outra casa de Mazón 1 copia
BEN Volverás a Región 1 copia
Opere correlate
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Benet, Juan
- Nome legale
- Benet Goitia, Juan
- Data di nascita
- 1927-10-07
- Data di morte
- 1993-01-05
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Spain
- Luogo di nascita
- Madrid, Spain
- Luogo di residenza
- San Sebastian, Spain
Oviedo, Spain
Ponferrada, Spain - Istruzione
- University of Madrid
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 64
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 918
- Popolarità
- #27,946
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 21
- ISBN
- 153
- Lingue
- 8
- Preferito da
- 2
Juan Benet (1927-1993) was a Spanish novelist, dramatist, essayist and civil engineer who began writing to pass the long nights alone when he was working on construction projects. It was because he was an engineer that this essay explains why 'The Tower of Babel' is not the simple painting of a Biblical myth that is neatly summarised at Wikipedia.
Well, according to Benet, construction workers don't need to understand each other anyway.
Indeed he goes so far as to say that if Noah's descendants failed to bring the tower's construction to a close at the moment when their language was lost, the blame would lie with personal quarrels and disputes concerning rank. For it could not be said that each individual builder [...] was no longer aware of what must be done.
Through his examination of the tiers, archways, pillars, windows and the strange amphitheatre at the top, Benet makes the case that this is a painting of a doomed building, destined to fall into ruin and to vanish from the face of the earth. The chaos at its heart is architectural hubris and the madness of the original concept. A royal entourage inspects it, but is irrelevant. The subject of this painting is the desolation of the building and its interrupted construction.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2024/06/04/the-construction-of-the-tower-of-babel-1990-...… (altro)