by Gabriel Albiac · Ediciones Paidós · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788449302435
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«La muerte: metáforas, mitología y símbolos» is the philosophical essay by Gabriel Albiac, published by Ediciones Paidós in paperback (160 pp., Spanish).
Essay examining how death has shaped Western art and literature since Antiquity. Starting from Epicurus, Albiac covers Homer, Virgil, Keats, Conrad and Ezra Pound, and analyzes the images of twilight, fleeting time and the journey to hell, as well as the death drive described by Freud.
The work belongs to the Contextos collection, where it occupies number 1. The cover corresponds to the 2nd edition; the publication dates from 1996.
Spanish writer, journalist and philosopher
