Breviaries, books of standard religious readings for particular denominations, are a familiar genre with a long pedigree. But you’ve definitely never seen a breviary like this one. The Sex of the Angels is a playful, often ironic take on the breviary in the form of a collection of letters that begins by taking up early Christian cosmology and follows the Biblical mutations of the angel from Babylon to the present day. As it goes along, Raoul Schrott also weaves in a history which ranges from ancient Greek legends of the origin of light to the medieval darkness of the eclipse. But there is more going on here than meets the eye: the letters are addressed to an unnamed “other” and chart the course of an elusive affair. They are, we come to realize, a declaration of love—or, more accurately, of yearning—but also a far-reaching poetic essay which moves between etymological history, anthropological anecdote, philosophy, and disquisition on the nature of art. The text is supplemented by sumptuous illustrations by Arnold Mario Dall’O that chart the stories of the saints, and the result is a unique dialogue between literature and art: an extraordinary and rare book about love.

The Sex of the Angels, the Saints in their Heaven: A Breviary (The German List)

Literature & Fiction

Schrott, Raoul

Literary

Seagull Books

Finis Terrae. Ein Nachlaß.

dtv.

Die Erfindung der Poesie. Gedichte aus den ersten viertausend Jahren.

Tropen: Über das Erhabene (German Edition)

C. Hanser

Gilgamesch ( Gilgamesh).

Carl Hanser Verlag

Erste Erde: Epos

Contemporary

Hanser, Carl GmbH + Co.

Gilgamesch ( Gilgamesh) (Fischer Taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe)

FISCHER Taschenbuch

Tristan da Cunha: Oder Die Hälfte der Erde

Finis Terrae

Ilias: Übertragen von Raoul Schrott. Kommentiert von Peter Mauritsch (Fischer Taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe)

HOMER

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