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...dislikes Bruce Campbell??people either adore him or have no clue who the heck he is. For all those mired in the ignorance of the latter category, Campbell is a B-movie god. The star of such classic films as Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness (original title: Medieval Dead), he has created an acting career out of being a caricature of a tough guy. His more mainstream work has also had an indie edge, much to the chagrin of network executives. So “The Adventures of Brisco County...
Roberto Calasso’s first work translated into English, the brilliant Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, saw him marking out his territory as somewhere between the literary anthropology of Robert Graves’ classic The White Goddess and the mythology-blender of Joseph Campbell??s Hero with a Thousand Faces. The Calasso of Literature and the Gods is a little closer to Goddess than Hero, as he attempts to trace through all of Western literature, from Homer to Nabokov, a phenomenon that he defines called “absolute literature.” Absolute literature is literature...