Discover The Great Books of western civilisation at a summer school to make your brain cells sizzle.
Le Professor Anthony O'Hear take you on a whistle-stop cultural tour of the minds that made the west, based on his book The Great Books: From "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" to Goethe's "Faust": A Journey Through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature.
This is what the press has been saying about O'Hear's historical and literary grand tour:
"O'Hear's range is extraordinarily wide and he has a rare ability to explain complex ideas in a straightforward fashion." Sunday Telegraph
'Impassioned and impressive' John Gray, Independent
'Salty and addictive' Daily Telegraph
'Fascinating' Alain de Botton, Observer
Now you can join in: ten days of intellectual formation and stimulation, with great company, good French food and wine, and daily cultural entertainment. it is going to be a literary house party to remember for anyone who wants to discover, or rediscover, the roots of our culture and participate in the 'great conversation' with the minds that forged our civilisation.
About Professor O'Hear's book:
Anthony O'Hear presents a personal tour of the most impressive, influential and era-defining books mankind has ever produced. "Paradise Lost", "The Canterbury Tales", "Don Quixote": great literature can be read by anyone, with a little help. Anthony O'Hear leads the way with this captivating journey through two-and-a-half millennia of books as dark, powerful, erotic, thrilling, politically astute and awe-inspiring as any modern bestseller. We begin with Homer, whose poems of epic struggle have made him the father of Western literature. After Greek tragedy, Plato, and Virgil's "Aeneid" comes Ovid, whose encyclopaedic "Metamorphoses" is an inexhaustible source for European art and literature. Via St Augustine we reach Dante, the author of "The Divine Comedy", a sublime, terrifying tour through "Hell", "Purgatory" and an ecstatic vision of "Paradise". Chaucer, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Milton, Pascal, Racine and finally Goethe complete the cast list. In each case, O'Hear patiently draws out themes, focuses on key passages and explains why they are important. Personal, passionate, painstakingly researched and beautifully illustrated, this is a grand work of reference. But it is also a narrative history shot through with a love of literature, and a deeply-held belief in its power to shape everyone's world.
More information on the Great Books summer course: 26th July to 4th August 2009 in France.
Buy The Great Books from Amazon.
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