Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise
by Paul Monette
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Author: Paul MonetteEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-04-15
ISBN: 0156002027
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Mariner Books
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- ISBN13: 9780156002028
- Condition: New
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[...] I recall being warmly introduced by a senior professor during that first cold semester to the Greeks. Among them, to Antigone, whose womanly defiance and conscience upset the tyrannical edict of Creon the king. She chose to bury her dead brother despite the injunction of the state, fully accepting her dim fate. The writer Paul Monette, in his essay "The Politics of Silence," recalls the words of the Chorus as Antigone goes to her death: Isn't man wonderful? He longed so much to speak his heart that he taught himself language, so that what was inside him could be spoken to the world. Monette's admiration of Antigone's courage is matched by his own brave belief in the Word--an inextricable link between language and power [...] --from "Recollections"
Summary of Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise
With Borrowed Time and Becoming a Man-the 1992 National Book Award winner for nonfiction-this collection completes Paul Monette?s autobiographical writing. Brimming with outrage yet tender, this is a ?remarkable book? (Philadelphia Inquirer).
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