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Fallen angels

Harold Bloom (Author), Mark Podwal (Illustrator)
"In this brief volume, celebrated critic Harold Bloom explores the universal fascination with angels. Drawing on his remarkable intimacy with the "long literary tradition [that] extends from ancient Persia through Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the various American religions," Bloom focuses in particular on the metaphoric power of angels. Examining sources that range from Zoroastrian texts, the Bible, and Kabbalah to Hamlet, Milton's Paradise Lost, and Tony Kushner's Angels in America, Bloom concludes that we are all fallen angels. "The center of any discussion of fallen angels has to be Adam," Bloom writes, "who seems to me a far greater fallen angel than Satan." Ultimately, for Bloom, "fallenness" is a defining characteristic of the human condition: the recognition of our own mortality
Print Book, English, 2007
Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007
1 v. (71 p.) : illustrations en coul. ; 19 cm
9780300123487, 0300123485
1099355658
The devil proper
Unfallen angels spoke (and speak) Hebrew
Elijah's metamorphosis
Demons
Lilith
Devils
Our fall
Good and evil
Metatron
Sammael, the angel of death
Sitra Ahra, or the other side
Angelicism
Fallen angels