The Chukchi Bible - Softcover

Rytkheu, Yuri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0981987311 ISBN 13: 9780981987316

Verlag: Archipelago, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Rytkheu Yuri

Über diesen Titel

Críticas:

A last, ringing testament to Rytkheu's people: a reworking of their myths, their history, and his own ancestry, in a poetic act of reclamation. . . Rich in the texture and detail of past lives. --The New York Review of Books

Breathtaking, wild, and imaginative . . . so clear, surefooted, vivid and confident . . . They describe the marking of the seasons -- the breaking ice, changing light, frost and drift . . . the training of shamans; the passing on of rituals and healing skills. --The Los Angeles Times

An extended epitaph inscribed on the tombstone of a small nationality. . . . [with] an indigenous genesis myth, a fall from grace and fratricide legends, a Chukchi Deuteronomy, and a prophet-like figure. . . . [with] a heightened sense of nostalgia and . . . the full range of Rytkheu's style, from the lyrical prose of his myths and legends to the down-to-earth idiom of European whalers and merchants. --World Literature Today

This story by Yuri Rytkheu is a love song to human survival, both physical and metaphysical, a true story about change and endurance, about the Essential way to live in the world, about the eternal story while recounting the fleeting one. --Gioia Timpanelli

Yuri writes with passion, strength, and beauty of a world we others have never understood. A splendid book. --Farley Mowat

Reseña del editor:

The Chukchi Bible is a collection of the myths and tales of Yuri Rytkheu's own shaman father. The stories compose both a moving history of the Chukchi people who inhabit the shores of the Bering Sea, and a beautiful cautionary tale, rife with conflict, human drama, and humor. We meet fantastic characters: Nau, the mother of the human race; Rau, her half-whale husband; and finally, the dark spirit Armagirgin, who attempts to destroy nature's harmony by pitting the two against each other.The Chukchi Bible moves through Arctic tundra, sea, and skyand beyondintroducing readers to an extraordinary mythology and a resilient people, in hauntingly poetic prose.

Yuri Rytkheu was born in 1930 in the Chukotka Peninsula of the northeastern tip of Siberia, home of the Chukchi, a disappearing people inhabiting one of the most majestic and inhospitable environments on earth.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Archipelago
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0981987311
• ISBN 13: 9780981987316
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 354