Red -holder"s hand and other essays

This book has gone to the Russian reader for more than twenty years - from the moment when the first collection of Essays Odin (1998) was published in Russia. The “hand of the dye” is the result of the literary life of the largest English poet and thinker of the 20th century. From the height of his experience, he draws up a book in which he reflects on art and life, beauty and truth, poetry and truth, "I" and "ego", reading and writing, craft and inspiration. His literary observations are dogmatic, but what a pleasure it is to follow the course of the thought of the convinced poet and philosopher! And isn"t the illusion of dogma shows world classics in an unexpectedly true light?
Why is the hero of Kafka - a man without "I"? What brings the detective and the Greek tragedy together? Why do we love Falstaf? Why is Shakespeare"s tragedies at the heart of a unexplored robber, and a rhyme verse differs from free as sculpting from modeling?
This book is for real connoisseurs of literary word and poetic thought. Wisten Oden himself was undoubtedly one of these readers