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A Bold, Iconoclastic New Look at One of the Great Works of Greek Tragedy
In this innovative rendition of The Oresteia, the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions—Aischylos' Agamemnon, Sophokles' Elektra, and Euripides' Orestes—giving birth to a wholly new experience of the classic Greek triumvirate of vengeance. After the murder of her daughter Iphegenia by her husband Agamemnon, Klytaimestra exacts a mother's revenge, murdering Agamemnon and his mistress, Kassandra. Displeased with Klytaimestra's actions, Apollo calls on her son, Orestes, to avenge his father's death with the help of his sister Elektra. In the end, Orestes, driven mad by the Furies for his bloody betrayal of family, and Elektra are condemned to death by the people of Argos, and must justify their actions—signaling a call to change in society, a shift from the capricious governing of the gods to the rule of manmade law.
Carson's accomplished rendering combines elements of contemporary vernacular with the traditional structures and rhetoric of Greek tragedy, opening up the plays to a modern audience. In addition to its accessibility, the wit and dazzling morbidity of her prose sheds new light on the saga for scholars. Anne Carson's Oresteia is a watershed translation, a death-dance of vengeance and passion not to be missed.
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Following her widely acclaimed Autobiography of Red ('a spellbinding achievement' - Susan Sontag): a new collection of poetry and prose that displays Anne Carson's intoxicating mixture of opposites - the classic and the modern, cinema and print, narrative and verse.
In Men in the Off Hours, Carson re-invents figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson and Audubon. She views the writings of Sappho, St Augustine and Catullus through a modern lens. She sets up startling juxtapositions (Lazarus among video paraphernalia; Virginia Woolf and Thucydides discussing war). And, in a final prose poem, she meditates on the recent death of her mother.
With its quiet, acute spirituality, its fearless wit and sensuality, and its joyful understanding that 'the fact of the matter for humans is imperfection', Men in the Off Hours is profound, provocative and unforgettable.
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The insights presented in the volume are many and wide-ranging, recognizably in tune with the subtlest modern discussions of desire (such as triangulation. or loving what others love), yet offering new solutions to old problems, like the proper interpretation of Plato's Phaedrus. On the frequently discussed effect of literacy on Greek civilization, the book offers a fresh view: it was no accident that the poets who invented Eros were also the first readers and writers of the Western literate tradition.
Originally published in 1986.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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La gran meditación sobre el amor, el deseo y los celos, de la autora de La belleza del marido, Premio Princesa de Asturias de las Letras 2020
«Leería cualquier cosa que Anne Carson escribiera.»
Susan Sontag
«Una escritora deslumbrante.»
Harold Bloom
«Brillante y llena de ingenio, apasionada y profundamente conmovedora.»
Michael Ondaatje
¿Cómo nos enamoramos? ¿Cómo surge el deseo erótico? ¿Por qué amor y odio convergen en él? Con la gracia y la brillantez que definen su poesía, Anne Carson desentraña los orígenes del deseo y sus contradicciones explorando la figura de Eros desde Safo de Lesbos -quien lo describió como «dulce y amargo»- o Platón, hasta Madame Bovary, Ana Karenina o nuestra Regenta. Helenista de formación, la escritora canadiensenos lleva hasta el origende nuestra cultura y de nuestra condición humana para iluminar problemas de nuestro tiempo en un gran ensayo, idóneo para iniciarse en su obra o para reencontrarse con ella.
La crítica ha dicho...
«Con un estilo profundo pero a la vez atractivo y dotado de amenidad, Carson parte de las palabras de la poeta Safo para rastrear los orígenes y el sentido del deseo. [...] Merece la pena entrar en el universo que plantea Carson, siempre impregnado de poesía, un mundo tan particular como poderoso.»
Telva
«Hay que leerla para rastrear el enigma de la belleza y el sexo. [...] Carson se reconoce en la esencia de la Antigua Grecia y la condensa en la luz de las cocinas y sus desayunos, en la nieve y en el bosque, en las conversaciones dolorosas, en las despedidas extrañas, en las páginas de los libros que enumera o en las citas de los versos que le ayudan a fabricar la textura inquietante de su propio universo.»
Ana Merino, El Mundo
«Letraherida por la literatura griega, Anne Carson ha dedicado su vida a indagar en los clásicos, a quienes nos acerca con singular talento: [...] Carson tiene el poder de hacer coincidir a Helena de Troya o Hércules con iconos occidentales como Marilyn Monroe. La llegada a las librerías de Eros dulce y amargo es una celebración. Y es que en esto del amor y el deseo, seguimos en manos de Afrodita.»
Harper's Bazaar
«Ha alcanzado unas cotas de intensidad y solvencia intelectual que la sitúan entre los escritores más destacados del presente. Desde el estudio grecolatino ha construido una poética innovadora donde la vitalidad del gran pensamiento clásico funciona a la manera de un mapa que invita a dilucidar las complejidades del momento actual. Su obra mantiene un compromiso con la emoción y el pensamiento, con el estudio de la tradición y la presencia renovada de las Humanidades como una manera de alcanzar mejor conciencia de nuestro tiempo.»
Jurado del Premio Princesa de Asturias de las Letras
«Un análisis donde conjuga con brío la reflexión traductológica y el formalismo ruso junto con la estilística avanzad
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Premio T.S. Eliot de poesía y uno de los 21 mejores libros del siglo XXI según Babelia
Premio Princesa de Asturias de las Letras 2020
«El deseo al cuadrado es amor y el amor al cuadrado es locura.
La locura al cuadrado es matrimonio.»
La belleza del marido, el primer libro que se publica en España de la canadiense Anne Carson, es una de las más originales y turbadoras manifestaciones de la poesía de nuestros días. Subtitulado «un ensayo narrativo en 29 tangos», este libro inclasificable cuenta la historia de un matrimonio en torno a la idea de Keats «beauty is truth», belleza es verdad.
A lo largo de estos 29 tangos -un tango, como el matrimonio, es algo que uno tiene que bailar hasta el final-, Anne Carson, considerada ya un clásico vivo de las letras anglosajonas, nos introduce en la historia íntima de un matrimonio que se desmorona. Iluminador, a menudo brutal, conmovedor y oscuramente divertido, este libro nos deslumbra con escenas, diálogos y reflexiones que ahondan en la más vieja de las preocupaciones poéticas -el amor- como si fuera la primera vez que se expresa.
Reseñas:
«Hay que prestarle atención, porque una poesía culta jamás pierde su emoción y vitalidad. Carson habla desde fuera del tiempo y el espacio, porque todos los tiempos y todos los espacios son el mismo. [...] Un premio merecidísimo para una futura Nobel.»
César Antonio Molina, ABC
«Un asombroso hojaldre de sentimientos encontrados, de reflexiones a menudo contradictorias sobre la belleza [...], sobre el amor, sobre la sinceridad, sobre el deseo.»
Ignacio Echevarría, El Cultural
«La obra de la canadiense es una suma de espacios discontinuos, un inmenso receptáculo que lo abarca todo. [...] Una obra que cambió la manera de entender la poesía ennuestro tiempo.»
Eduardo Lago, El País
«La lectura de Anne Carson ocasiona un placer que sacude. [...] La belleza del marido es desgarrador, cercano, irónico y, por momentos, cruel. Lo veo como un examen ejemplar de la intimidad.»
Matías Rivas, La Tercera
«La voz más respetada hoy de las letras anglosajonas, una de las grandes.»
Elena Hevia, El Periódico
«Anne Carson nos enseña a vivir la poesía como si sumara un cúmulo de muchos instantes que se descifran con la mirada y dan forma a la existencia misma.»
Ana Merino, El Mundo
«La poesía más interesante que se escribe hoy en día en inglés.»
Michael Ondaatje
«Leería cualquier cosa que Anne Carson escribiera.»
Susan Sontag
«Una poeta reflexiva y violenta, la que se piensa y golpea, la clásica y la osada, la que reinventa los mitos y estructura el poemario con hechuras de ensayo.»
Braulio Ortiz, Málaga Hoy
«Uno de los mejoreslibros de este siglo.»
Alberto Gómez, Sur
«En una época en que el cuerpo lo ha invadido todo como consecuencia de la desaparición lenta pero imparable del esp&ia
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Dans l'univers de Proust, le modèle d'Albertine était un homme, et le personnage d'À la recherche du temps perdu a le goût des femmes comme des hommes. Par un savant effet de superposition, Albertine finit d'ailleurs par se confondre avec l'autre grand amour de Marcel dans le roman : Gilberte. Cela valait la peine de démêler les fils, et de faire un point à la fois drôle, décapant et subtil sur cette figure complexe de l'amour dévorant. Anne Carson s'y emploie, par brefs fragments, dans un livre intense qui constitue le bréviaire de tout proustien, et qui donne envie aux autres de lire la Recherche.
Née au Canada, Anne Carson enseigne le grec ancien.
Traduit de l'anglais (Canada) par Claro
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My father killed me
Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson. The New York Times Book Review calls her work “personal, necessary, and important,” while Publishers Weekly says she is “nothing less than brilliant.” Her poetry—enigmatic yet approachable, deeply personal yet universal in scope, wildly mutable yet always recognizable as her distinct voice—invests contemporary concerns with the epic resonance and power of the Greek classics that she has studied, taught, and translated for decades.
Iphigenia among the Taurians is the latest in Carson’s series of translations of the plays of Euripides. Originally published as part of the third edition of Chicago’s Complete Greek Tragedies, it is published here as a stand-alone volume for the first time. In Carson’s stunning translation, Euripides’s play—full of mistaken identities, dangerous misunderstandings, and unexpected interventions by gods and men—is as fierce and fresh as any contemporary drama. Carson has accomplished one of the rarest feats of translation: maintaining fidelity to a writer’s words even as she inflects them with her own unique poetic voice.
Destined to become the standard translation of the play, Iphigenia among the Taurians is a remarkable accomplishment, and an unforgettable work of poetic drama.
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Since Glass and God, which was her first full-length collection published in Britain and which was nominated for the 1998 Forward Prize, Anne Carson has published a book a year to extraordinary critical acclaim. Her last two volumes, Autobiography of Red and Men in the Off Hours were both shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and she has received numerous North American awards, including the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship.
In her brilliant new book, she tells a single story. A long-time love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 29 'tangos' of narrative verse, informed by the romanticism of Keats, the wisdom of the classical world and, most importatnly, by Carson's own unique sensibility.
The unnamed narrator - sometimes 'I', sometimes 'the wife' - speaks of the man she calls only 'the husband', illuminating moments that are by turn sensual, erotic, painful and heartbreaking. The Beauty of the Husband is a work that explores these oldest of lyrical subjects - beauty, desire, love, betrayal - with freshness and devastating power.
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
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“Nothing stands still in this poetry: the wind blows the trees, the lake water ripples and the ever-present road runs in and out of the hills.”—American Poetry Review
Moss covered paths between scarlet peonies,
Pale jade mountains fill your rustic windows.
I envy you, drunk with flowers,
Butterflies swirling in your dreams.
—Ch’ien Ch’i
This exquisite gift book offers a wide sampling of Chinese verse, from the first century to our own time, beginning with the lyric poetry of Tu Fu, moving to the folk songs of the Six Dynasties Period, on to the Sung Dynasty, and to the present. Also represented are some of the best-known women of Chinese poetry, including Li Ching-chao and Chu Shu-chen. These simple, accessible but profound poems come through to us with a breathtaking immediacy in Kenneth Rexroth’s English versions—a wonderful gift for any lover of poetry.
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The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point, Anne Carson launches an exploration, poetic in its own right, of the idea of poetic economy. She offers a reading of certain of Simonides' texts and aligns these with writings of the modern Romanian poet Paul Celan, a Jew and survivor of the Holocaust, whose "economies" of language are notorious. Asking such questions as, What is lost when words are wasted? and Who profits when words are saved? Carson reveals the two poets' striking commonalities.
In Carson's view Simonides and Celan share a similar mentality or disposition toward the world, language and the work of the poet. Economy of the Unlost begins by showing how each of the two poets stands in a state of alienation between two worlds. In Simonides' case, the gift economy of fifth-century b.c. Greece was giving way to one based on money and commodities, while Celan's life spanned pre- and post-Holocaust worlds, and he himself, writing in German, became estranged from his native language. Carson goes on to consider various aspects of the two poets' techniques for coming to grips with the invisible through the visible world. A focus on the genre of the epitaph grants insights into the kinds of exchange the poets envision between the living and the dead. Assessing the impact on Simonidean composition of the material fact of inscription on stone, Carson suggests that a need for brevity influenced the exactitude and clarity of Simonides' style, and proposes a comparison with Celan's interest in the "negative design" of printmaking: both poets, though in different ways, employ a kind of negative image making, cutting away all that is superfluous. This book's juxtaposition of the two poets illuminates their differences--Simonides' fundamental faith in the power of the word, Celan's ultimate despair--as well as their similarities; it provides fertile ground for the virtuosic interplay of Carson's scholarship and her poetic sensibility.
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