Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
2019; University of Oklahoma; Volume: 93; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/wlt.2019.0183
ISSN1945-8134
Autores Tópico(s)Themes in Literature Analysis
ResumoBooks in Review César Aira 99 Prins Tanella Boni 79 The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn Rita Bullwinkel 107 Belly Up: Stories Lauren Camp 90 Turquoise Door: Finding Mabel Dodge Luhan in New Mexico Fırat Caner 106 Deccal İncili Joke Corporaal 95 As Long as the Tree Blooms: A Short History of Frisian Literature Aline Kominsky-Crumb 104 Love That Bunch Tsitsi Dangarembga 100 This Mournable Body Christine Eber 103 When a Woman Rises Mathias Énard 76 Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants Adel Esmat 108 Tales of Yusuf Tadrus Ali Fitzgerald 98 Drawn to Berlin: Comic Workshops in Refugee Shelters and Other Stories from a New Europe Jon Fosse 82 Scenes from a Childhood Thierry Froger 82 Les Nuits d’Ava Julián Fuks 78 Resistance Reyna Grande 108 A Dream Called Home Wendy Guerra 83 Revolution Sunday Franziska Hauser 106 Die Gewitterschwimmerin Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen 90 Secret Passages in a Hillside Town Iwaki Kei 91 Farewell, My Orange Christian Kracht 102 The Dead Anna Laestadius Larsson 104 Hilma: En roman om gåtan Hilma af Klint Sarah Léon 98 Wanderer Ada Limón 88 The Carrying Alain Mabanckou 78 Broken Glass Philip Metres 92 The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance Sarah Moss 86 Ghost Wall Akiyuki Nosaka 80 The Cake Tree in the Ruins Toshiki Okada 102 The End of the Moment We Had The Routledge 110 Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing Sarah Ruhl & Max Ritvo 100 Letters from Max: A Book of Friendship Kim Sagwa 111 Mina Roberto Saviano 94 The Piranhas:The Boy Bosses of Naples Sjón 96 CoDex 1962 Lars Petter Sveen 93 Children of God Ilmar Taska 85 Pobeda 1946: A Car Called Victory Olga Tokarczuk 80 Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead Yannis Tsirbas 94 Vic City Express Anne Tyler 111 Clock Dance Giorgio van Straten 86 In Search of Lost Books:The Forgotten Stories of Eight Mythical Volumes Alison Whittaker 87 Blakwork Adam Zagajewski 84 Asymmetry Olga Tokarczuk’s fiery eco-fable Taking the measure of absence with Adam Zagajewski Philip Metres explores the lyric of resistance Sarah Ruhl and Max Ritvo: A friendship captured in amber 80 84 92 100 WORLDLIT.ORG 75 Mathias Énard Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants Trans. Charlotte Mandell. New York. New Directions. 2018. 144 pages. ALTHOUGH THERE were many intellectual currents, social and political upheavals spanning over four centuries that shaped the contours of the European Renaissance, the artistic spirit of the period was captured in the paintings and sculptures of the two Florentine polymaths —Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. These gifted architects of the High Renaissance were believed to have enjoyed their artistic pursuits without restraint and chiseled their way to fame as “Renaissance men” supported by the generous patronage of the papacy and the wealthy House of Medici in Florence . Beyond these rosy portraits, however, not much was written about the jealousies between them, their resentments at being rejected and mistreated by the authorities and their attempts to look out for greener pastures outside Europe, including in the rival, “infidel” dynasties in the East. At the beginning of the sixteenth century , Michelangelo, still in his late twenties but basking in the glory of his masterpiece David, which he had just completed, got an invitation from Bayezid II, the Ottoman sultan, to design a bridge across the Golden Horn in Constantinople. This offer came hot on the heels of the rejection of Leonardo da Vinci’s design of the same bridge by the sultan. According to the account of Ascanio Condivi, a pupil and biographer of Michelangelo (as well as that of the famous art historian Giorgio Vasari), although the Florentine artist was then going through a bitter dispute with Pope Julius II, he refused this offer because he feared that it would betray his Christian faith and end up irritating Pope Julius II. However, a recent discovery in the Ottoman archives of a sketch for the bridge over the Golden Horn attributed to Michelangelo suggests that the famous Florentine artist might have accepted the invitation of the sultan, paid a short visit to Istanbul, and submitted a sketch...
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