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4259386The Epic of Gilgameshhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-epic-of-gilgamesh-9781609807948/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3869014/f8a81ccd-27bf-417d-936b-5d06a7729a7f.jpg?v=638385998397500000253329MXNSeven Stories PressInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH</strong> is the <em>Uhr</em> epic--the heros journey, quest, and education--inscribed onto damp clay tablets several millennia before Odysseus or the priest of Ecclesiastes found their voices. Sumerian versions of the epic date back almost 5000 years. It is a Bildungsroman of a bad king learning to become a proper human being and therefore a wise king, and to do so, besides defeating lions and monsters and surviving great physical and emotional suffering, he must face, and answer, the first (and last) great question: mortality.</p><p>Translated into English and presented here in its entirety as a graphic novel, this version of <strong>THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH</strong> is a father/son project by scholar and translator Kent H. Dixon and his son, the comix artist Kevin Dixon, who bring a fresh take on this great work. The reader is slowed down by the artwork and visual jokes and the artists wry hat-tippings to various masters (Crumb and Gilbert Shelton alongside Schultz and Capp, <em>Popeye</em> and <em>Krazy Kat</em>, Uderzos <em>Astérix</em> and Hergés <em>Tintin</em>), and then, once the reading pace has shifted into lower gear, having all these aspects complementarily drawn out, makes for an especially satisfying counterpoint to the low-key, the wise and cynical and morally sophisticated, and sometimes sublimely Olympian humor.</p>...4195425The Epic of Gilgamesh253329https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-epic-of-gilgamesh-9781609807948/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3869014/f8a81ccd-27bf-417d-936b-5d06a7729a7f.jpg?v=638385998397500000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20189781609807948_W3siaWQiOiJiYjEwY2EzMi1lNjdkLTRmMzktYmQ3ZS00MmQzZDQ3MGU2ZjMiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjMyOSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjc2LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjI1MywiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDctMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781609807948_<p><strong>THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH</strong> is the <em>Uhr</em> epic--the heros journey, quest, and education--inscribed onto damp clay tablets several millennia before Odysseus or the priest of Ecclesiastes found their voices. Sumerian versions of the epic date back almost 5000 years. It is a Bildungsroman of a bad king learning to become a proper human being and therefore a wise king, and to do so, besides defeating lions and monsters and surviving great physical and emotional suffering, he must face, and answer, the first (and last) great question: mortality.</p><p>Translated into English and presented here in its entirety as a graphic novel, this version of <strong>THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH</strong> is a father/son project by scholar and translator Kent H. Dixon and his son, the comix artist Kevin Dixon, who bring a fresh take on this great work. The reader is slowed down by the artwork and visual jokes and the artists wry hat-tippings to various masters (Crumb and Gilbert Shelton alongside Schultz and Capp, <em>Popeye</em> and <em>Krazy Kat</em>, Uderzos <em>Astérix</em> and Hergés <em>Tintin</em>), and then, once the reading pace has shifted into lower gear, having all these aspects complementarily drawn out, makes for an especially satisfying counterpoint to the low-key, the wise and cynical and morally sophisticated, and sometimes sublimely Olympian humor.</p>(*_*)9781609807948_<p><strong>THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH</strong> is the <em>Uhr</em> epic--the heros journey, quest, and education--inscribed onto damp clay tablets several millennia before Odysseus or the priest of Ecclesiastes found their voices. Sumerian versions of the epic date back almost 5000 years. It is a Bildungsroman of a bad king learning to become a proper human being and therefore a wise king, and to do so, besides defeating lions and monsters and surviving great physical and emotional suffering, he must face, and answer, the first (and last) great question: mortality.</p><p>Translated into English and presented here in its entirety as a graphic novel, this version of <strong>THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH</strong> is a father/son project by scholar and translator Kent H. Dixon and his son, the comix artist Kevin Dixon, who bring a fresh take on this great work. The reader is slowed down by the artwork and visual jokes and the artists wry hat-tippings to various masters (Crumb and Gilbert Shelton alongside Schultz and Capp, <em>Popeye</em> and <em>Krazy Kat</em>, Uderzos <em>Astérix</em> and Hergés <em>Tintin</em>), and then, once the reading pace has shifted into lower gear, having all these aspects complementarily drawn out, makes for an especially satisfying counterpoint to the low-key, the wise and cynical and morally sophisticated, and sometimes sublimely Olympian humor.</p>...9781609807948_Seven Stories Presslibro_electonico_e5da54e3-1ae1-33df-9cbf-1714a68eeada_9781609807948;9781609807948_9781609807948InglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/randomhousewh-epub-011398d4-70c4-494a-a766-d47f6f3e00f8.epub2018-07-10T00:00:00+00:00Seven Stories Press