Contemporary Review, March 1st, 2003
Empedocles' Shoe: Essays on Brecht's Poetry. Tom Kuhn and Karen Leeder, editors. Methuen. [pounds]20.00. 307 pages. ISBN 0413-75730-7. The title of this volume sets the tone by its reference to a long poem that retells a classical story. The story is of the death of Empedocles, a pre-Socratic philosopher who, after a long and wise life, decides to end his days dramatically by climbing Mount Aetna with a group of friends, then quietly slipping away as they stand conversing and admiring the view, and throwing himself into the crater. The only trace of him that remains is his shoe. His friends o...
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