Antigonick - Winner of the Criticos Prize - Rilegato

Anne Carson

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1852249390 ISBN 13: 9781852249397

Casa editrice: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2012

Riassunto

Antigonick is a comic-book presentation of Sophokles' Antigone in a new translation by Anne Carson, with text blocks hand-inked on the page by Carson and her collaborator Robert Currie. On separate translucent vellum pages, the artist Bianca Stone has created stunning drawings to 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: it will provoke poetry readers, classical scholars, theatre people and comic-book aficionados.

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Recensione

The comic-book translation is zingy and modern...Carson has perfectly captured Antigone's moral fervour and her almost erotic desire for death. The snappiness of her translation hits a different note from Sophocles, but this edition is a treat none the less. --Natalie Haynes, Observer

Unlike versions of Antigone that try to capture the drama's grandeur (such as Robert Fagles's translation for Penguin) or to make it relevant (including Don Taylor's version, currently at the National Theatre), Carson's aims to show the difficulty of translation, the truly unbearable nature of tragedy. --Emily Stokes, Guardian

Antigonick questions what it means to translate Greek drama...For Carson, her uncompromising solutions are little kidnaps in the dark, a trail of softly glowing lamps that mark the way through the centuries and out of the shadows.' - Josephine Balmer, Times

'Antigonick by Anne Carson; everything this classicist-poet writes is worth repeated close reading. This is also a beautiful book.' --Candia McWilliam, Sunday Herald, Books of the Year 2013

L'autore

Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living. She is author of The Autobiography of Red, The Beauty of the Husband, Decreation, Economy of the Unlost, Eros the Bittersweet, Glass, Irony and God, Grief Lessons, If Not, Winter, Men in the Off Hours, Nox, and Plainwater. Antigonick, her version of Sophokles' Antigone, won the 2012 Criticos Prize for an original work, written in (or translated into) English, inspired by Greece or Greek exploits, culture or history.

Bianca Stone, author of the chapbook Someone Else's Wedding Vows, received her MFA from New York University in 2009, and is the editor of Monk Books. Besides writing poetry Bianca is a visual artist, often combining verse and image, for which she is a 2011 NYFA fellow.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1852249390
• ISBN 13: 9781852249397
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 112
• Disegnatore: Bianca Stone