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Stephen Greenblatt - Pulitzer Award- and National Book Award- winning writer of The Swerve and Will in the World - investigates the life of 1 of humankind's biggest testimonies. Bolder even than the ambitious literature that Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Climb and Fall of Adam and Eve explores the enduring tale of humanity's first parents. Composed of only a few ancient verses, the storyplot of Adam and Eve has offered as a mirror where we appear to glimpse the whole long record of our anxieties and dreams, as both a hymn to individuals responsibility and a dark fable about individuals wretchedness. Monitoring the tale in to the deep history, Greenblatt uncovers the great theological, creative, and social investment over decades that made these imaginary figures so profoundly resonant in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim worlds and, finally, so very "real" to a huge number of people even in today's. While using uncanny brilliance he recently taken to his depictions of William Shakespeare and Poggio Bracciolini (the humanist monk who is the protagonist of The Swerve), Greenblatt explores the intensely personal engagement of Augustine, Dürer, and Milton in this mammoth project of collective creation while he also limns the variety of the story's offspring: wealthy allegory, vicious misogyny, deep moral insight, and some of the greatest triumphs of artwork and literature. The biblical source tale, Greenblatt argues, is a model for what the humanities still have to offer: not the clinical dynamics of things but instead a deep face with problems that have gripped our varieties for so long as we can recall and that continue steadily to fascinate and trouble us today.
