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THE EDEN REVELATION IBD

SPUYTEN DUYVIL
05 / 2023
9781959556053
Inglés

Sinopsis

Today we diagnose extreme fantasies as a trait of the unconscious human mind. Prior to the 1990s, we might have echoed the physical symptoms of TB in MannâÇÖs sanatorium, which offered mountain air and 'intellectual entertainment'. Now, when we realize the disease within Eden was carried by a disguised serpent, weâÇÖre made aware that fantasy and psychosis are its human equivalent, leading to wars and boundary-erasing animal-to-human transmission of pandemics.áááSo that this time, in place of MannâÇÖs characters voicing bygone ironies, our original ecosystem-a buried Garden of Eden, where Homo sapiens evolved-is broken into by an archaeologistâÇÖs Middle Eastern dig.áIt is where this novel begins its reckoning with the psychic attachments underlying sexuality.áArchaeologist Archibald Shechner, likewise, hears a singular voice breaking into his head.áHis colleagues fear a nervous breakdown. The novel itself at times seems to distill into a transcription, as if evolving into a new species of prose testimony. Yet the framework of its characters in search of their lost archaeologist colleague and his ancient scrolls remains firmly narrative. It is anchored in both cultural and natural history, suggesting a hopeful guide for 'blind' evolution.

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20,76