Csehy Zoltán - Amalthea szarva

It is not an exaggeration to say that an area the size of Atlantis sank into the ocean of oblivion by neglecting humanist, neo-Latin literature. This book is a playful and serious report from this sunken intellectual republic, whose borders have never existed (unless they are the endpoints of human ... Continue ›› fantasy and knowledge), its social classes, each citizen is worth as much as his learned language and talent pressed in the lat. The cornucopia is said to have been born from the horn of a goat named Amalthea, who fed the infant Zeus. Such a cornucopia is the world of humanist poetry in Latin, which poured its wealth across borders and nations, and for several centuries nourished the followers of a spiritual republic who, as the most depraved idealists of world literature, with an almost anarchist fervor, increased the literature of a language and culture which then for most people it was virtually non-existent. This resurrection and resurrection miracle could not pass without a trace: this book preserves fragments of this long-lasting, almost incomprehensible fandom for the initiated.

Kalligram Publishing House
Fiction
728 pages
Binding: hardboard, thread bound
ISBN: 9788081015724
Author: Zoltán Csehy