Beginning in the Garden of Eden and soaring through to the present, A Time for Everything reimagines pivotal encounters between humans and angels: the glow of the cherubim watching over Eden the profound love between Cain and Abel despite their differences Lot’s shame in Sodom Noah’s isolation before the flood Ezekiel tied to his bed, prophesying ferociously the death of Christ and the emergence of sensual, mischievous cherubs in the seventeenth century. This event is decisive in Bellori’s life, and he thereafter devotes himself to the pursuit and study of angels, the intermediaries of the divine.
In the sixteenth century, Antinous Bellori, a boy of eleven, is lost in a dark forest and stumbles upon two glowing beings, one carrying a spear, the other a flaming torch. Angels & Demons at Play: A Time for Everything by Karl Ove Knausgaard 元3Tphun4ev Angels & Demons at Play: A Time for Everything by Karl Ove Knausgaard Knausgaard’s second book offers everything I fall for in a novel: authority, execution, audacity, oomph, heft.
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