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Journal Article
An Ancient Newcomer to Modern Culture
2007
Overview
In 1916 the poet Rilke pronounced Gilgamesh \"stupendous angehaier\\l ... the greatest thing that can happen to a person,\" Having used this quotation as an epigraph to The Burial Book, Damrosch notes in his epilogue that Gi/giiiiit's/i today has not only become \"a staple text in American world literature courses,\" but is read globally in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Persian, Spanish, and numerous other translations, inspiring writers to explore \"issues of tyranny and justice, love and death, and art and immortality,\" as exemplified by the experimental \"Gilgamesh Theatre Group\" of New York City (founded 1 992), and by several novels of strikingly different provenances. In what space allows, let us touch upon some of the most salient aspects of Gilgamesh interpretation and reception that go unnoted in The Buried Book.\\n Not surprisingly, especially given the importance of symbol-laden dreams in Gilgamesh (which predict the arrival of Enkidu in Uruk and, later, his death), the psychoanalyst C. G. Jung trolled the epic assiduously, fishing up symbols of the libido (Gilgamesh himself), of desire for the mother (Gilgamesh's encounter with the goddess Ishtar), of the disjunction of the conscious from the unconscious (the gods' depriving Gilgamesh of everKisting life), and so forth.
