Survival of the Fireflies

by Georges Didi-Huberman

Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism

Dante once spoke, in his Divine Comedy, of the miniscule lights, in the twenty-sixth canto of the Inferno, who, contrary to the great lights that shined bright within the sublime circles of Paradise, frailly wandered in the somber pockets of glimmering light within the darkness. Pliny the Elder was once preoccupied by a type of fly named pyrallis or...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517905745
• ISBN13: 9781517905743
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.9"