The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos - Brossura

Carson, Anne

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ISBN 10: 0676974759 ISBN 13: 9780676974751

Casa editrice: Vintage Canada, 2002

Riassunto

The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end.

This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single story in an immediate, accessible voice — 29 “tangos” of narrative verse that take us vividly through erotic, painful, and heartbreaking scenes from a long-time marriage that falls apart. Only award-winning poet Anne Carson could create a work that takes on the oldest of lyrical subjects — love — and make it this powerful, this fresh, this devastating.

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Recensione:

“The most exciting poet writing in English today.” —Michael Ondaatje

“Brilliantly captured...Reading her is to experience a euphonious, mystical sort of perplexity...punctuated by what the husband himself calls ‘short blinding passages’...moments of almost unbearable poignancy.” —The New York Times

“Her best book.... Her poetry’s form and sensibility are quite unlike anything else.” —The Globe and Mail

“With swift strokes depicting the illusions and disillusions of a marriage gone sour, Carson has managed to make the intellectual life hip. In her hands, a quote from Plato seems as natural as a pop reference.... Then there are the lines of sheer lyricism, lines that send us spinning back to the idea of beauty, of truth.” —Miami Herald

“An exquisite meditation on love and loss that reads with the emotional depth — and with the ongoing resonance — of a great novel.” —Elle

“I would read anything that [Anne Carson] wrote.” —Susan Sontag

L'autore:

Anne Carson lives in Canada.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vintage Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0676974759
• ISBN 13: 9780676974751
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 160