<p>Rich with literary awards and honours, Alberto Manguel extends his literary genius to address and complete a thoughtfully crafted extrapolation on a paper left unfinished by Northrop Frye in 1943. The result is a succinct yet densely multilayered examination of how various readings of Homer throughout the annals of history cast light upon the human tendency towards war rather than peace and asks what roles writing and reading play to bring the world into better equilibrium. Central to this lecture is the concept of re-binding, a word drawn from the Latin roots for the word religion, which Manguel posits is the essential definition of poetry. Homer\u2019s writings, the point of origin of all written verse, are also the first written instance of the binding of imagined, written, and read realities. The semantics of Homer\u2019s name and the literal and figurative ramifications of his blindness are investigated as Manguel builds the scaffold for unveiling our own blindness through our desire to read Homer in our own image. We are left to examine our own assumptions.<\/p><p>Combl\u00e9 de prix litt\u00e9raires et d\u2019honneurs, Alberto Manguel pr\u00eate son g\u00e9nie litt\u00e9raire \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tude et au parach\u00e8vement d\u2019une extrapolation song\u00e9e que Northrop Frye avait laiss\u00e9e en plan en 1943. Il en r\u00e9sulte une analyse succincte mais en replis serr\u00e9s des multiples lectures d\u2019Hom\u00e8re l\u00e9gu\u00e9es par les si\u00e8cles, qui r\u00e9v\u00e8le comment ces interpr\u00e9tations \u00e9clairent la propension humaine \u00e0 la guerre plut\u00f4t qu\u2019\u00e0 la paix, ce qui le m\u00e8ne \u00e0 s\u2019interroger sur le r\u00f4le que jouent l\u2019\u00e9criture et la lecture quand il s\u2019agit de cr\u00e9er un monde plus \u00e9quilibr\u00e9. La notion de re-lier, un mot dont les racines latines sont les m\u00eames que le mot religion, est au coeur de cette conf\u00e9rence, et Manguel en fait la d\u00e9finition essentielle de la po\u00e9sie. Les \u00e9crits d\u2019Hom\u00e8re, point d\u2019origine de toute la po\u00e9sie \u00e9crite, fournissent aussi la premi\u00e8re occurrence d\u2019un lien entre les r\u00e9alit\u00e9s imagin\u00e9es, \u00e9crites et lues. La valeur s\u00e9mantique du nom d\u2019Hom\u00e8re et les r\u00e9percussions concr\u00e8tes et figur\u00e9es de sa c\u00e9cit\u00e9 font partie des \u00e9l\u00e9ments que Manguel scrute pour fonder son \u00e9vocation de notre aveuglement \u00e0 nous quand nous insistons pour lire Hom\u00e8re \u00e0 notre propre image. Nous n\u2019avons plus qu\u2019\u00e0 remettre nos hypoth\u00e8ses.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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