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Sto caricando le informazioni... Il miele del leone. Il mito di Sansone (2005)di David Grossman
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This was a book I wasn't entirely sure whether I'd enjoy it or not. In the end I did. I read it in two or three extremely separated sittings, and that probably added to my overall experience of it as a somewhat ethereal and dreamlike experience. I thought, possibly like many of us, that I knew the biblical story of Samson reasonably well, but Grossman's careful exploration of the text exposed to me just how much of it I'd either forgotten or never knew. It's a wonderfully beguiling story. The author's examination of Samson's Israel is full of fleeting glimpses of a slow and gritty landscape; hints of a 'land of milk and honey' set against a backdrop of harsh nature and sporadically warring peoples with rival deities and belief systems. This is a thought provoking look at a vivid chapter from the Book of Judges that some may find perplexing, but I think that most interested readers would find worthwhile. In those days the area was thickly wooded - 'as plentiful as sycamores in the Shephelah plain' was once a simile for abundance - but today the trees are sparse, the hills exposed. Ironically, made me glad to find there are some books I don't enjoy. Minute textual analysis of the Samson tale in the OT. Quotes from many Talmudic scholars; indeed reads rather like one. seems to be trying to bring the characters to life but actually kills them stone dead, buried in speculative detail. Slightly more of interest are some of the verbal, etymological comments. I gave up. Great title, though! nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"There are few other Bible stories with so much drama and action, narrative fireworks and raw emotion, as we find in the tale of Samson: the battle with the lion; the three hundred burning foxes; the women he bedded and the one woman that he loved; his betrayal by all the women in his life, from his mother to Delilah; and, in the end, his murderous suicide, when he brought the house down on himself and three thousand Philistines. Yet beyond the wild impulsiveness, the chaos, the din, we can make out a life story that is, at bottom, the tortured journey of a single, lonely and turbulent soul who never found, anywhere, a true home in the world, whose very body was a harsh place of exile. "For me, this discovery, this recognition, is the point at which the myth - for all its grand images, its larger-than-life adventures - slips silently into the day-to-day existence of each of us, into our most private moments, our buried secrets" From David Grossman's Introduction to Lion's Honey "A writer of passionate honesty, unafraid to ask terrible questions." Nadine Gordimer Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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This is really a midrash or commentary on the story of Samson in Judges by David Grossman. The full title is Lion's Honey: the myth of Samson, so unlike myself, Grossman and maybe all Hebrew believe this is not a true story. I found it extremely interesting to read this story about a man who was born to a barren family for the purpose of freeing God's people from the Philistines. I've always viewed Samson as a spoiled only son but Grossman views him as a lonely man who never felt like he belonged. ( )