The Green Child

ISBN-13: 9780811221825 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 208 str.

Herbert Edward Read; Eliot Weinberger

Opis

The Green Child is the only novel by Herbert Read the famous English poet, anarchist, and literary critic. First published by New Directions in 1948, it remains a singular work of bewildering imagination and radiance. The author considered it a philosophical myth akin to Plato s cave.Olivero, the former dictator of a South American country, has returned to his native England after faking his own assassination. On a walk he sees, through a cottage window, a green-skinned young girl tied to a chair. He watches in horror as the kidnapper forces the girl to drink lamb s blood from a cup. Olivero rescues the child, and she leads him into unknown realms."