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Ladder of Shadows
Gustaf Sobin
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University of California Press 
Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews
Beschreibung
Bits of late Roman coinage, the mutilated torso of a marble Venus, blue debris from an early medieval glassworks, and the powder rasped from the reputed tomb of Mary Magdalene—these tantalizing mementos of human history found scattered throughout the landscape of southeastern France are the points of departure for Gustaf Sobin's lyrical narrative. A companion volume to his acclaimed Luminous Debris, Ladder of Shadows picks up where the former left off: with late antiquity, covering a period from roughly the third to the thirteenth century. Here Sobin offers brilliant readings of late Roman and early Christian ruins in his adopted region of Provence, sifting through iconographic, architectural, and sacramental vestiges to shed light on nothing less than the existential itself.
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architecture, the circulades of languedoc, faja oscura, carolingian sarcophagus, late roman coins, luminous debris, late antiquity, venus disfigured, early medieval glassworks, lyrical narrative, marble venus, reputed tomb of mary magdalene, provence, incastellamento, sarcophagi of arles, dark ages, human history, sacraments, celestial paradigms, iconography, france, baptistery at riez, death of genesis, late roman ruins, antique city, city of god, southeastern france, early christian ruins, psalmodi, sainte marthe