Political + Literature means politics + fairy tale and literature +
politics, true of the highest orders of decay of every time and culture, oral and
written. From Aeschylus to Solzhenitsyn with every great renaissance
writer in between, Dante and Swift, Milton, Shakespeare, Spenser, and certainly the
Aztec legends, the Cree tales and every other, literature prescient of
politics of all times and ages wherever we realize to connect.
These
essays take some event or person as pretexts of literary texts. The
Inferno and the Faerie Queen explain CERN and Ground Zero.
Obama is explained as Ishtar and Gilgamesh, America is Stephen Spender’s
Weimar. Politics explained by litereature and fairy tales are
already interpreted pretexts, thus Obama’s nomination is the installation of
Ishtar, CERN is Satan’s fall in Dante’s Inferno, Ground Zero and the
Fallen Towers are Spenser’s Palace of Pride, and twenty first century America
is Stephen Spender’s prewar Germany of the Weimar, all of which contribute to
The Death of Justice Scalia by Cinderela and conspiracy theory. here
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