Saints and Scholars

Saints and Scholars Book Description Terry Eagleton, whom we know with his theoretical works, is this time with a novel in the heart of Ireland, the land of saints and scholars, martyrs and madmen, in which the metaphysical itch created by the desire to know is tinged with the gray of England and the green of Ireland. Moreover, it describes an extraordinary encounter where fiction triumphs over life and the question mark burns more hotly than a bullet. When Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the world's most original philosophers, and the famous linguist Nikolay Bakhtin escaped from the cold corridors of the academy to a country house, would they have thought that James Connolly, one of the leaders of the Irish independence movement, could escape a conflict injured and take shelter with them? So, what if Leopold Bloom would jump out of Ulysses one night and join them? This magnificent foursome soon gets into a heated discussion about life, revolution, violence, mind, religion, nation and identity, and everyone starts to shed their stones. A modern classic that conveys the duel between the pen and the sword through the alembic of laughter... (From the Promotional Bulletin)