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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 Manguel posits is the essential definition of poetry. Homer's writings, the point of origin of all written verse, are also the first written instance of the binding of imagined, written, and read realities. The semantics of Homer's name and the literal and figurative ramifications of his blindness are investigated as Manguel builds the scaffold for unveiling our own blindness through our desire to read Homer in our own image. We are left to examine our own assumptions.
Comblé de prix litté raires et d' honneurs, Alberto Manguel prê te son gé nie litté raire à l' é tude et au parachè vement d' une extrapolation songé e que Northrop Frye avait laissé e en plan en 1943. Il en ré sulte une analyse succincte mais en replis serré s des multiples lectures d' Homè re lé gué es par les siè cles, qui ré vè le comment ces interpré tations é clairent la propension humaine à la guerre plutô t qu' à la paix, ce qui le mè ne à s' interroger sur le rô le que jouent l' é criture et la lecture quand il s' agit de cré er un monde plus é quilibré . La notion de re-lier, un mot dont les racines latines sont les mê mes que le mot religion, est au coeur de cette confé rence, et Manguel en fait la dé finition essentielle de la poé sie. Les é crits d' Homè re, point d' origine de toute la poé sie é crite, fournissent aussi la premiè re occurrence d' un lien entre les ré alité s imaginé es, é crites et lues. La valeur sé mantique du nom d' Homè re et les ré percussions concrè tes et figuré es de sa cé cité font partie des é lé ments que Manguel scrute pour fonder son é vocation de notre aveuglement à nous quand nous insistons pour lire Homè re à notre propre image. Nous n' avons plus qu' à remettre nos hypothè ses.
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