The Poetry of Bertolt Brecht. (Reviews).(Empedocles' Shoe: Essays on Brecht's Poetry)(Book Review)

Contemporary Review | March 1, 2003| | Copyright

Empedocles' Shoe: Essays on Brecht's Poetry. Tom Kuhn and Karen Leeder, editors. Methuen. [pounds]20.00. 307 pages. ISBN 0413-75730-7.

The title of this volume sets the tone by its reference to a long poem that retells a classical story. The story is of the death of Empedocles, a pre-Socratic philosopher who, after a long and wise life, decides to end his days dramatically by climbing Mount Aetna with a group of friends, then quietly slipping away as they stand conversing and admiring the view, and throwing himself into the crater. The only trace of him that remains ...

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