From the Bookshelf of The Athena Project…

[close] Literature as one of the key tools for us to find shape and contour of our own lives, as the author said "Art makes life visible." As similar to his early books, the author reviewed many western cannons on theme of one life's arch, from the morning of childhood, to the noon of love and maturity, and the night of aging and dying. With a tone more intimate and immediately urgent, the author urges us to explore our own world through the lattice laid out by great literatures. This is not a book selected on the moralistic and socially conforming lines; in fact, it is quite against the vein of social propaganda by plodding us to read the tough and hard works -- the works that reveal life and human nature as what it is -- red in tooth and claw -- as well as squalid and sublime at the same time.