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Euripides Grief Lessons (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Grief Lessons : Four Plays by Euripides
- Publication Name
- Grief Lessons
- Title
- Grief Lessons
- Subtitle
- Four Plays By Euripi
- Format
- Uk-Trade Paper
- ISBN-10
- 1590172531
- EAN
- 9781590172537
- ISBN
- 9781590172537
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Genre
- Drama, Literary Criticism, Poetry
- Release Year
- 2008
- Release Date
- 16/09/2008
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 7.9in
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Topic
- Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, Drama, Ancient & Classical
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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Now in paperback. Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. "Euripides," the classicist Bernard Knox has written, "was born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent the rest of mankind from doing so." His plays were shockers: he unmasked heroes, revealing them as foolish and savage, and he wrote about the powerless-women and children, slaves and barbarians-for whom tragedy was not so much exceptional as unending. Euripides' plays rarely won first prize in the great democratic competitions of ancient Athens, but their combustible mixture of realism and extremism fascinated audiences throughout the Greek world. In the last days of the Peloponnesian War, Athenian prisoners held captive in far-off Sicily were said to have won their freedom by reciting snatches of Euripides' latest tragedies. Four of those tragedies are presented here in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles , in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe , set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor's widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos , about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis , which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: "Tragedy: A Curious Art Form" and "Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra."
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Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1590172531
ISBN-13
9781590172537
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60276584
Product Key Features
Book Title
Grief Lessons : Four Plays by Euripides
Format
Uk-Trade Paper
Language
English
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, Drama, Ancient & Classical
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Drama, Literary Criticism, Poetry
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pa3973
Reviews
"The amazing poet Anne Carson offers a new translation of four plays by Euripides, each of which unfurls in searing, plainspoken English. Her essays and introductions are priceless." - Time Out NY "In Grief Lessons , the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson's spare and beautiful new translation of four of Euripides' lesser known tragedies, we have a kind of primer on the intrinsic dangers of blind devotion to ideology." - The New Yorker "An eclectic selection that provides an excellent introduction to Euripides's range. Ms. Carson's Euripides is bleak, moving, and provocative, offering a painful reminder of the resonance of these ancient plays with our own times." - The New York Sun " Grief Lessons ...reminds us that the difference between competent and inspired translation is more than a matter of even bravura technical competence. It involves a kind of discreet union between writer and translator, a certain convergence of aesthetic impulse and intellectual inclination. The issue of such a union can take a reader's breath away because it just seems so right--a work that stands firmly on its own but is somehow contented to be the sum of its parts. Carson's is, in other words, an altogether worthy heir...It's a reasonable and reasonably provocative contemporary reading." - The Los Angeles Times "Writing with a pitch and heat that gets to the heart of the unforgiving classical world, Carson..is nothing less than brilliant--unfalteringly sharp in diction, audacious and judicious in taking liberties...Worth the price of admission alone is Carson's blistering essay afterword, written in Euripides's voice...This amazing book gets very close to the playwright's enigmatic answers." - Publishers Weekly*, "The amazing poet Anne Carson offers a new translation of four plays by Euripides, each of which unfurls in searing, plainspoken English. Her essays and introductions are priceless." -Time Out NY "InGrief Lessons, the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson's spare and beautiful new translation of four of Euripides' lesser known tragedies, we have a kind of primer on the intrinsic dangers of blind devotion to ideology." -The New Yorker "An eclectic selection that provides an excellent introduction to Euripides's range. Ms. Carson's Euripides is bleak, moving, and provocative, offering a painful reminder of the resonance of these ancient plays with our own times." -The New York Sun "Grief Lessons...reminds us that the difference between competent and inspired translation is more than a matter of even bravura technical competence. It involves a kind of discreet union between writer and translator, a certain convergence of aesthetic impulse and intellectual inclination. The issue of such a union can take a reader's breath away because it just seems so right--a work that stands firmly on its own but is somehow contented to be the sum of its parts. Carson's is, in other words, an altogether worthy heir...It's a reasonable and reasonably provocative contemporary reading." -The Los Angeles Times "Writing with a pitch and heat that gets to the heart of the unforgiving classical world, Carson..is nothing less than brilliant--unfalteringly sharp in diction, audacious and judicious in taking liberties...Worth the price of admission alone is Carson's blistering essay afterword, written in Euripides's voice...This amazing book gets very close to the playwright's enigmatic answers." -Publishers Weekly*
Copyright Date
2008
Dewey Decimal
822/.01
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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