Ragnarök. The Tale of the Gods

In the book by Danish writer and philosopher Willy Sørensen (1929-2001), an impressive depiction of the universe unfolds, as it was imagined by the ancient Scandinavians. The author uses traditional mythological themes known from the Elder and Younger Eddas, but interprets them in his own way. He calls upon his contemporaries to pursue something that is both simple and complex, yet the only possible and necessary thing - to preserve peace in all meanings of the word.
By the time the book "Ragnarök" was published, Sørensen had already asserted himself as a serious prose writer, the author of several collections of novellas in the spirit of absurdism and a number of significant literary-philosophical works, including a collection of essays on literature and folklore titled "Poets and Demons" (1959), as well as books on Søren Kierkegaard (1961), Friedrich Nietzsche (1963), Franz Kafka (1968), Arthur Schopenhauer (1969), and Seneca...