هومو نرانس فارسی 1402

Man's endeavor is the construction of himself, the pursuit of completion and integration. As a person speaks, he positions himself, lands and settles down. He tries to replace what he lost through language with a new one. What he aims to achieve is always what he leaves behind. This identity construction spanning thousands of years creates the world of meaning that humans wear on their animal bodies, transforming them into rationally organized social beings. Homo narrans is the creator of great stories composed of tiny pieces, with the texts he creates from letters he carves from nature and the immortal symbolism he wears over his mortality. Myths are the linguistic reflections of man's interaction with his environment as a part of nature and are the stories of the dominance he tries to establish over nature. In this sense, myths are building blocks created by man that he uses to build himself. What is a human? It is the sum of the answers to the question. Man is his own narrative; His body, world, life and culture exist in the myths and tales that he both produces and takes part in. The world we live in is a Homo sapiens world built from beginning to end by and through language. A person who lives and dies a life whose script he wrote himself, without wanting to die, has left himself in the blind wells of narratives, clinging to the rope of language in an effort to give meaning to both his life and the death he cannot bear. Maybe that's why Homo sapiens is Homo narrans, that is, a human being who tells stories. Why do people tell stories? This book, which traces the question over thousands of years, takes the reader on an exciting journey accompanied by myths and fairy tales.