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The King and the Corpse : Tales of the Soul’s Conquest of Evil

By Heinrich Robert Zimmer

Book information

Publisher
Pantheon
Year
1948
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13576720 bytes)
Series
Bollingen Series 11
Pages
\336
DPI
300
Time added
2024-01-04 10:03:59

Description

Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil. Beginning with a tale from the Arabian Nights, this theme unfolds in legends from Irish paganism, medieval Christianity, the Arthurian cycle, and early Hinduism. In the retelling of these tales, Zimmer discloses the meanings within their seemingly unrelated symbols and suggests the philosophical wholeness of this assortment of myth.

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