Die Geschichte von Adam und Eva

The celebrated book by the Pulitzer Prize winner in a new edition. Why does the story of Adam and Eve still fascinate us today? Our concepts of paradise, shame and sin, our ideas of good and evil, and our perception of women – how much have they been shaped by this primordial narrative? Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Greenblatt explores this most powerful of all human myths. In many stories, he not only describes the legacy of Adam and Eve in Christian culture since Augustine and Dürer, but also shows us that this myth touches on an existential question that modern science cannot answer – what it truly means to be human.