By Theodore Ziolkowski
In Gilgamesh between Us, Theodore Ziolkowski explores the spectacular legacy of the poem and its hero, in addition to the epic's carrying on with impact in smooth letters and humanities. This impact extends from Carl Gustav Jung and Rainer Maria Rilke's early embody of the epic's significance-"Gilgamesh is tremendous!" Rilke wrote to his publisher's spouse after examining it-to its appropriation for the reason that global battle II in contexts as disparate as operas and work, the poetry of Charles Olson and Louis Zukofsky, novels via John Gardner and Philip Roth, and episodes of Star Trek: the subsequent Generation and Xena: Warrior Princess.
Ziolkowski sees fascination with Gilgamesh as a mirrored image of everlasting religious values-love, friendship, braveness, and the phobia and attractiveness of demise. famous writers, musicians, and artists from Sweden to Spain, from the us to Australia, have tailored the tale in ways in which meet the social and creative tendencies of the days. The spirit of this capacious hero has absorbed the losses felt within the fast postwar interval and been infused with the buzz and optimism of routine for homosexual rights, feminism, and environmental attention. Gilgamesh is right away a seismograph of shifts in Western heritage and tradition and a testomony to the verities and values of the traditional epic.
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