Summary
Richard Kearney: About stories
About stories is a wonderful, impressive analysis of the art of storytelling, the oldest and most important human art, the art from which all others derive.
Richard Kearnev, one of the most respected contemporary Irish philosophers and literary theorists, shows us examples of great folk stories and their consequences: the Irish-English conflict, the Serbian-Croatian, German-Jewish, as well as an example of the personal, dramatic narrative of Dora, Freud's patient.
Each of these scenographies shows how the art of telling stories is powerful and ubiquitous - it created nations, determined billions of human lives, sketched history on the big screen, as
And on the smallest, most personal; it appears in the most refined as well as the most trivial forms. Every life is a story, strange, different from others, unique and unrepeatable and that is exactly what makes it so special and worthy of respect
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