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      That Mighty Sculptor, Time

      by Marguerite Yourcenar
      Published
      May 1993
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      240
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      This posthumously published collection of essays takes up such diverse subjects as the poet Oppian, Tantrism, the feasts of the Christian year, Durer, the Japanese studies of Ivan Morris, the erotic mysticism of the Gita-Govinda, the eternal spirit of Andalusia, and Bede's Ecclesiastical History. The title esay consider's time's transforming effect on arrt, meditating on the erosion of a statue and the resulting production of a new, sublime work of art.

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      First Edition May 1993 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0374523754
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      May 1992 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0374273588
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