The battle of the (great) books
The dialogic approach to great books
The sacrifice scene : Kierkegaard and Levin
Samson : Jabotinsky and DeMille
Jesus Christ : Monty Python and Saramago
Horace in Pushkin, Owen, and Diderot
Juvenal's Satire X : Johnson and Swift
Pygmalion : Ovid, Shaw & My fair lady via Molière
More's Utopia : Bacon, Swift, and Voltaire
Robinson Crusoe, the variety principle revisited.
