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RE: ADSactly Culture - The 7 Basic Story Archetypes

in #literature5 years ago

I thank you for your new commitment in the treatment of this attractive issue of narrative archetypes (which includes that of the hero). Archetypal stories is a central facet. I don't know Christopher Booker's book, whose thesis you follow in your exhibition (which I suppose was nourished by the contributions of previous scholars such as Joseph Campbell or Northrop Frye). When I read your post I remembered something said by the writer Jorge Luis Borges (of great international recognition), who said that universal stories could be synthesized in four or five. In his short essay "The Four Cycles" of his book The Gold of the Tigers (1972) he formulates that these four stories are: "that of a strong city that encircles and defends brave men"; "that of a return"; "that of a search" and "that of the sacrifice of a god".
Very good work, well exemplified and illustrated, @honedue. Greetings.

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