Review of The Golden Egg: Alchemy in Art and Literature

[Paul Ferguson]

"This volume is the fourth in the series ‘Leipzig Explorations in Literature and Culture’. Several of the titles that have appeared under this rubric have been monographic, while one other, the excellent Lost Worlds and Mad Elephants: Literature, Science and Technology 1700-1990, examined the perennial but still-urgent issue concerning the correspondences and dissonances that exist between literature and science. To a certain extent, The Golden Egg does something similar to that book, though the debate over the relationship between the ‘two cultures’ is given an extra dimension here by taking as its focus alchemy, which is notoriously irreducible to one or the other – and that is where its chief interest lies today."

Alexandra Lembert & Elmar Schenkel (eds.), The Golden Egg: Alchemy in Art and Literature, Berlin & Cambridge, MA, Galda & Wilch Verlag, 2002, 231 pp. [ISBN 3-931397-40-8 and 1-931255-10-5]

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