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Hegel writes in his
Aesthetics: “
The Antigone is one of the most sublime and in every respect most excellent works of art of all time.” Simone Weil writes in a notebook: “Great literary works: veils drawn in front of truth, but transparent veils. Electra. Antigone. Antigone also doubts …” Here is Sophokles’ sublime tragedy, unveiled in ecstatic English — at once playful and serious — and freshly penned in Anne Carson’s rendition.
Chorus: But of course there is hope look here comes hope
wandering in
to tickle your feet
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"She is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anything she wrote." Susan Sontag
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"Carson is nothing less than brilliant--unfalteringly sharp indiction, audacious, and judicious in taking liberties." Publishers Weekly
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"Reading Anne Carson is to experience aeuphonious, mystical sort of perplexity." Richard Bernstein
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"Her poetry is light, swift, and beautiful." The New York Times
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"The reader, the listener is provoked and challenged to the utmost." The New Yorker
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"It is a cry of grief posed in question form, emphatic, handwritten, excessive and abbreviated and, in this sense, a measured scream that gives us some sense of who or what lives on when it is all too late." The Times Literary Supplement
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"Such light-handed scholarship is characteristic of Carson, a poet interested in those moments when precedents can't be found and normal translations fail." Judith Butler Public Books
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"Ms. Carson does more than just update the language and quicken the pacing-she rewrites the play, mines its subtleties, its absurdity and its strangely comic timing and manages to produce a unique text out of a story that goes back much further than the fifth century when Sophocles wrote his version." Judith Butler Public Books
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"Carson's poetry convinces. Carson's work is irrepressibly modern and provoking." The Guardian
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"[Antigonick] is both riveting and humorous. Bianca Stone's illustrations are immediate and visceral, and Robert Currie's overall book design has elegance and strength." Slate
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"Stone's illustrations and the hand-lettered text make a beautiful object." The Globe and Mail
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"Carson and Stone have crafted something of an entirely new spirit." Slate
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"In Carson's hands, this small, familiar Greek volume takes on a thunderously fresh rhythm, a satisfying blend of poetry and prose." Guernica
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"Her poetry at it's best, like Antigone's character, is a thrilling combination of hot-blooded instinct and dispassionate resolve." KGB Bar Lit Magazine
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" plays extensively with the conventions of narrative form, translation, and the physical presentation of literature." Slate
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" is as much a re-telling as it is a testament to the importance of in Western art, of re-tellings, and of refiguring narrative." The New Inquiry
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"The experiment's a fascinating one, and this interesting, risk-taking book is unignorable." Critical Mob
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"Her poetry is expressionistic (you see this in ), shot through with a spiritual turbulence and an almost violent sensitivity to experience, and the barbed edges of her lines can send shocks through you." Critical Mob
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"Carson's is wildly unorthodox. But it's also captivating, in a brash, pop culture-inflected way." Full Stop
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"This is where Carson's best work is staged: in the uncanny gateway between the temporal and the timeless; in the nick between the world of powerboats and the sublime, terrifying realm of the dead and the still lively gods." Thestar.com
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" has arrived at the right cultural moment." Full Stop
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"One of the best designed books of the year and a unique reading experience." The New Inquiry
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Synopsis
Now in paperback, Anne Carson's modern translation of
Synopsis
An illustrated new translation of Sophokles' .
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Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. is her seminal work. Sophokles' luminous and disturbing tragedy is here given an entirely fresh language and presentation. This paperback edition includes a new preface by the author, "Dear Antigone."
About the Author
Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living at New York University. Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the MacArthur "Genius" Award. She is the author of Nox; Glass, Irony and God; The Autobiography of Red; The Beauty of the Husband; Decreation; Economy of the Unlost; Eros the Bittersweet; Grief Lessons; If Not, Winter; Men in the Off Hours; and Plainwater.