A review by bookly_reads
Moses, Man of the Mountain, by Zora Neale Hurston
4.0
Random thoughts: I feel like this book does for Moses what Mary Renault's trilogy did for Alexander the Great. Just makes him this amazingly cool, iconic character. Moses was already that in my brain, but this book gave me more words with which to think about it.
I found the misogyny disturbing, and it even makes me wonder if I read Their Eyes Were Watching God as being more progressive than perhaps Hurston ever actually intended.
It's interesting that Hurston was totally down with Moses being, essentially, a great wizard, but then was like, "Wait, hold up, he can't be related to Aaron and Miriam, that would be a stretch." Not complaining about that point; her kind of cynical interpretations of the Exodus, mixed with her embrace of literal magic, was just interesting to me.
I found the misogyny disturbing, and it even makes me wonder if I read Their Eyes Were Watching God as being more progressive than perhaps Hurston ever actually intended.
It's interesting that Hurston was totally down with Moses being, essentially, a great wizard, but then was like, "Wait, hold up, he can't be related to Aaron and Miriam, that would be a stretch." Not complaining about that point; her kind of cynical interpretations of the Exodus, mixed with her embrace of literal magic, was just interesting to me.