The Eating of the Gods: An Interpretation of Greek Tragedy by Jan Kott

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229837 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Eating of the Gods: An Interpretation of Greek Tragedy Author: Jan Kott Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: March 3, 2015 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In The Eating of the Gods the distinguished Polish critic Jan Kott reexamines Greek tragedy from the modern perspective. As in his earlier acclaimed Shakespeare, Our Contemporary, Kott provides startling insights and intuitive leaps which link our world to that of the ancient Greeks. The title refers to the Bacchae of Euripides, that tragedy of lust, revenge, murder, and 'the joy of eating raw flesh' which Kott finds paradigmatic in its violence and bloodshed. Whether reflecting on Prometheus or drawing a modern parallel in Beckett's Happy Days ('the final version of the Prometheus myth'), Kott's vision is brilliant, his method innovative, and his sensibility consistently new. Since this book first appeared, Kott's connections between ancient and modern have become even more compelling in their immediacy.