"In <i>The Glance of the Medusa</i>, Földényi develops an anatomy of European mythology in his quest towards understanding human completeness. . . . The book advocates a re-enchantment of the world, a theme already introduced in Földényi’s previous non-fiction work, <i>Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears</i> (2020), and is a logical development of his authoritative <i>Melancholy</i> (2016) which gave voice to deep ontological anguish. [Földényi] argues that a fragmentation of the soul is a function of our spiritual disorientation as we, moderns, have forgotten our place in — and connection with — a wider cosmos."
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