Posts Tagged ‘death’
The Gnostic Jung And the Seven Sermons to the Dead Reviewed by Frank Thomas Smith – Quest Books: 4th printing 1994 The Seven Sermons to the Dead is a mysterious, little known or understood work of C. G. Jung’s, which was privately printed in German, without copyright or date, sometime between 1920 and 1925, and […]
By James Romm Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Borzoi Books, New York, 2011 Buy this Book! James Romm is the pen name of James H. Ottaway, Jr., a Professor of Classics at Bard College, New York. “The story of Alexander’s conquests is known to many readers,” writes the author in the Preface, “but the dramatic […]
by Saul Bellow Published by Penguin Books; First Printing edition (April 26, 2001) Click to Buy this Book! I don’t think that “Ravelstein” is really about Ravelstein — whoever he’s supposed to be in real life, some say Alan Bloom, but this doesn’t interest me much. The real antagonist of “Ravelstein” is Chick, Ravelstein’s […]