The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Joseph Campbell)

Iets wat al lang op jouw TeLezen-lijstje stond: " De held met de duizend gezichten - De archetypische reis van de held in mythen en verhalen " (NL) "T he Hero with a Thousand Faces " (EN ; first published in 1949) ...van Joseph Campbell Citaten: . "People may be unprepared, but they are never unprovisioned." . P.20 Modern literature is devoted, in great measure, to a courageous, open-eyed observation of the sickeningly broken figurations that abound before us, aroimd us, and within. Where the natural impulse to complain against the holocaust has been suppressed—to cry out blame, or to announce panaceas—the magnitude of an art of tragedy more potent (for us) than the Greek finds realization: the realistic, intimate, and variously interesting tragedy of democracy, where the god is beheld crucified in the catastrophes not of the great houses only but of every common home, every scourged and lacerated face. And there is no make-believe about heaven, future...