Johann M. Moser

Broschiertes Buch

The Song of the Eternal Aeons

A Phantasmagoria

Beschreibung

Forgotten now are the mystical verses of the ancient Song of the Eternal Aeons. In years gone by, ritual incantation of those verses blessed the realm and energized its people with the cosmic forces of the universe. Today - without them - the land is dark, storms are frequent, crops fail, and peasants starve. In the colleges, scholars turn away from books to play obsessively a massive, magical board game that extinguishes thought, thrusting its best players into eternal slumbers broken by feverish dreams. From those dreams arise malevolent forces hungry to devour and destroy all things living. One remedy alone exists: recovery of the Song. But where in that vast, tortured land - or elsewhere - can anyone find its lost verses? And who will wield the Song against the fiendish creatures that now ravish the land and slaughter its people?

Autor

Johann M. Moser was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1940. He grew up in New York City and later in New Jersey. At Dartmouth College he majored in philosophy and studied with the poet Richard Eberhart. In 1970, he received a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in poetics and medieval literature. From 1970 until his retirement in 2000, he taught literature and philosophy at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. Although familiar with many areas of the United States and having lived several years abroad, Moser spent his early summers in the Lakes Region of central New Hampshire, where he has now resided for over half a century. In these decades, he has formed an intimate bond with northern New England, whose mountains and lakes and lively populace have been a source of inspiration for him, even as he has devoted himself to a sustained pursuit and emulation of world literature rature in all its dense historicity and its universal aesthetic achievements.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Diamond Ledge Press
• Seitenzahl: 506
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 814g
• ISBN-13: 9781964001197
• ISBN-10: 1964001196
• Artikelnr.: 74368265