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Payback is an intelligent, wide-ranging book that examines the metaphor of debt and the role it takes in our lives. ?Debt? is like air – something we take for granted and never think about until things go wrong. This is not a book about debt management or high finance, but about debt as a very old, central motif in religion and literature and also in the structuring of human societies. She looks at the language of debt in the Old Testament – what was ‘owed’ to God, and why. She then turns to investigate debt as sin in medieval and Elizabethan literature, before it develops into a plot-driving concept in nineteenth and twentieth century novels. The debts to society and to nature are discussed in the final essay in this book as Atwood explores how debt as a metaphor affects our understanding of the environment and death. Topical, enlightening and probing, this is the work of one of the most gifted writers of our generation.
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Βάρος | 299 g |
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Διαστάσεις | 20 × 13 × 3 cm |
Διαστάσεις | 20X13 |
Εκδότης | BLOOMSBURY |
Έτος Κυκλοφορίας | |
Σελίδες | 240 |