The King and the Corpse

Heinrich Zimmer provides a collection of stories from from Eastern and Western literatures that are linked by a shared concern for the dilemma of our perpetual fight with the powers of evil. This issue is explored in stories from Irish paganism, mediaeval Christianity, the Arthurian cycle, and early Hinduism, beginning with an Arabian Nights storey. Zimmer reveals the meanings inside seemingly unconnected symbols in his retellings of these tales, implying the philosophical coherence of this collection of myth. ‍