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While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father's spirit. His brothers and their families share in Joseph's prosperity andthe farm flourishes - until one brother, scared by Joseph's pagan belief, kills the tree and brings disease and famine on the farm. Set in familiar Steinbeck country, TO A GOD UNKOWN is a mystical tale, exploring one man's attempt to control theforces of nature and to understand the ways of God.… (mais)
Con las bendiciones de su fallecido padre resonando en su cabeza, el joven granjero Joseph Wayne abandona la casa familiar en Vermont para iniciar una nueva vida en California. Allí hará realidad su sueño de construir una granja en un fértil valle, mientras cada vez más obsesionado con un imponente árbol que crece junto a la casa, acabará convencido de que en él mora el espíritu de su progenitor. La prosperidad le decide a traer junto a él a sus hermanos y sus familias, pero uno de ellos, atemorizado por lo que considera creencias paganas de Joseph, talará el árbol. Y todo cambiará para siempre... Esta segunda novela de John Steinbeck, repleta de referencias a los ritos paganos, los mitos griegos y la Biblia, es una hermosa indagación en la relación del hombre con la Naturaleza, y una magistral reflexión sobre el destino.
While the book is a bit lacking in focus, there are some interesting pieces in it, particularly the rock and all the nature around it and its lack of interest for the human beings who think they own and control it through stories and myths. ( )
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TO A GOD UNKNOWN He is the giver of breath, and strength is his gift. The high Gods revere his commandments. His shadow is life, his shadow is death; Who is He to whom we shall offer our sacrifice?
Through His might He became lord of the living and glittering world And he rules th world and the men and the beasts Who is He to whome we shall offer our sacrifice?
From His strength the mountains take being, and the sea, and they say, And the distant river; And these are his body and his two arms. Who is He to whom we shall offer our sacrifice?
He made the sky and the earth, and His will fixed their places, Yet they look to Him and tremble. The risen sun shines forth over Him. Who is He to whom we shall offer our sacrifices?
He looked over the waters which stored His power and gendered the sacrifice. He is God over Gods. Who is He to whom we shall offer our sacrifice?
May He not hurt us, He who made the earth, Who made the sky and the shining sea? Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice? VEDA
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When the crops were under cover on the Wayne farm near Pittsford in Vermont, when the winter wood was cut and the first light snow lay on the ground, Joseph Wayne went to the wing-back chair by the fireplace late one afternoon and stood before his father.
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He thought of Joseph Wayne, and he saw the pale eyes suffering because of the land's want. "That man must be very happy now," Father Angelo said to himself.
While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father's spirit. His brothers and their families share in Joseph's prosperity andthe farm flourishes - until one brother, scared by Joseph's pagan belief, kills the tree and brings disease and famine on the farm. Set in familiar Steinbeck country, TO A GOD UNKOWN is a mystical tale, exploring one man's attempt to control theforces of nature and to understand the ways of God.
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