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Product Identifiers
PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-100811219577
ISBN-139780811219570
eBay Product ID (ePID)112023608
Product Key Features
Book TitleAntigonick
Number of Pages180 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, American / General, Ancient & Classical
Publication Year2012
IllustratorYes
GenrePoetry
AuthorAnne Carson
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight19.6 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsMs. Carson does more than just update the language and quicken the pacing-she rewrites the play, mines its subtleties, its absurdity and its strangely comic timing and manages to produce a unique text out of a story that goes back much further than the fifth century when Sophocles wrote his version., Carson is nothing less than brilliant--unfalteringly sharp indiction, audacious, and judicious in taking liberties., Her poetry is expressionistic (you see this in Antigonick), shot through with a spiritual turbulence and an almost violent sensitivity to experience, and the barbed edges of her lines can send shocks through you., This is where Carson's best work is staged: in the uncanny gateway between the temporal and the timeless; in the nick between the world of powerboats and the sublime, terrifying realm of the dead and the still lively gods., Carson's Antigonick is wildly unorthodox. But it's also captivating, in a brash, pop culture-inflected way., Such light-handed scholarship is characteristic of Carson, a poet interested in those moments when precedents can't be found and normal translations fail., Her poetry at it's best, like Antigone's character, is a thrilling combination of hot-blooded instinct and dispassionate resolve., [Antigonick] is both riveting and humorous. Bianca Stone's illustrations are immediate and visceral, and Robert Currie's overall book design has elegance and strength., A beautiful, bewildering book, wondrous and a bit scary to behold, that gives a reader much to think about without making it clear how she should feel., Antigonick plays extensively with the conventions of narrative form, translation, and the physical presentation of literature., In Carson's hands, this small, familiar Greek volume takes on a thunderously fresh rhythm, a satisfying blend of poetry and prose., It is a cry of grief posed in question form, emphatic, handwritten, excessive and abbreviated and, in this sense, a measured scream that gives us some sense of who or what lives on when it is all too late., Antigonick is as much a re-telling as it is a testament to the importance of Antigone in Western art, of re-tellings, and of refiguring narrative.
Dewey Decimal882/.01
SynopsisWith text blocks hand-inked on the page by Anne Carson and her collaborator Robert Currie, Antigonick features translucent vellum pages with stunning drawings by Bianca Stone that overlay the text. Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick is her first attempt at making translation into a combined visual and textual experience. Sophokles' luminous and disturbing tragedy is here given an entirely fresh language and presentation. Thoroughly delightful.
LC Classification NumberPA4414.A7C37 2012
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- 03. Jun. 2022
A fantastic reinterpretation of Sophocles' tragedy
An interpretation of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone by Anne Carson. Modern elements are brought into the play, but otherwise the original is followed closely. The pages are handwritten and the text is supported by art by Bianca Stone. It is a really good experience that makes one look at the tragedy with new eyes. I highly recommend it. Note that there is a paperback, but it only has the text. It's hardback that is the one to buy.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
