Beowulf - Brossura

Heaney, Seamus

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571230415 ISBN 13: 9780571230419

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2007

Riassunto

Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth century, is the elegaic narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel, and, later, from Grendel's mother. He returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid battle against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and living on in the exhausted aftermath.

Heaney's celebrated translation honours what is remote and intuits what is uncannily familiar, at the end of the twentieth century, in this founding masterpiece of English poetry. Now, for the first time, the Old English text - which survived only in a single scorched manuscript, now held in the British Museum - can be read in conjunction with the translation on facing pages.

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Recensione

Heaney's intelligence, fine ear and obvious love of the poem bring Beowulf alive as a melancholy masterpiece, a complex Christian-pagan lament for duty, glory, loss and transience. Heaney has done it (and us) a great service.'

(Claire Harman Evening Standard)

A wonderfully unfazed and unfussy riding round the great barrow of the text itself. (Paul Muldoon Times Literary Supplement)

The whole performance is wonderfully intermediate - poised between the Bible and folk wisdom, between the Light Ages and the Dark Ages - and at the same time pulverisingly actual in its language. He has made a masterpiece out of a masterpiece. (Andrew Motion Financial Times)

Descrizione del libro

A bi-lingual edition of Seamus Heaney's prize-winning bestseller, Beowulf.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0571230415
• ISBN 13: 9780571230419
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile