Source And Bush

Michel Tournier, one of the greatest creators of today's French literature, builds his narrative based on myths, which are crystallized examples of collective consciousness, in his latest work, The Source and The Bush. Its main concern is to point out other living possibilities by intervening in today's daily life, which consumes the myths and parables in the Bible without questioning, which form the basis of Western culture...
The Source and the Bush, the story of people's endless search for the "Promised Land" from ancient times to the present day. , is actually a migration myth; A novel that tries to re-look at the phenomenon of "migration and immigrants", one of the hottest topics in human history from past to present. Migration continued with an uninterrupted flow throughout all ages of humanity; An action as real and human as love, anger, jealousy and war. In a sense, it is the expression of humankind's effort to reach from bush to resource, from fire to water. It also has a feature that completely changes the fate of societies.
Just as it completely changed Eleazar's life...
The year is 1845 when Priest Eleazar left his homeland Ireland, where the plague that decimated potatoes was reigning, with his wife and children. His journeys will not end when he sets foot on the Eastern coast of America, but will continue under the guidance of the Holy Book, which Eleazar guides him. The target reaches California, which the Bible identifies with the Land of Canaan, the "Promised Land". The mystical character of his experience in the Colorado desert makes Eleazar think that he is reading the Bible literally for the first time. He makes sense of his own fate in the light of Moses' fate. He accepts the drama of Moses, who was writhing between the Flaming Bush and the living Source, between Jehovah and the Hebrew people, as the essence of his own life...
This book, in which Eleazar's life is told in parallel with Moses', has a strong mythological background and a shocking story. It has fiction. At the same time, we are faced with an adventure that takes place in the little-known lands of America, intertwined with natives, outlaws, almost extinct bison and rattlesnakes, and decorated with "western" motifs...



< b>Number of Pages: 96


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Ayrinti Publications

Number of Pages: 96

Language: Turkish