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An Oresteia by Anne Carson (tr.); Aeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides
Category: Fiction
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 e ...Show more
An Oresteia translated by Anne Carson by Anne Carson; Aiskhylos; Sophokles; Euripides
Category: Fiction
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 murd ...Show more
Antigone by Anne Carson
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Oberon Classics
When her dead brother is decreed a traitor, his body left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone refuses to accept this most severe of punishments. Defying her uncle who governs, she dares to say 'No'. Forging ahead with a funeral alone, she places personal allegiance before politics, a tenacious act ...Show more
Antigonick by Anne Carson
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
With text blocks hand-inked on the page by Anne Carson and her collaborator Robert Currie, Antigonick features translucent vellum pages with stunning drawings by Bianca Stone that overlay the text.Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles a ...Show more
Antigonick by Anne Carson
Category: Fiction
Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick 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 ...Show more
Autobiography Of Red by Anne Carson
Category: Poetry | Series: Cape Poetry S.
The winged red monster Geryon's story is a mixture of whimsy and sadness. He is tormented as a boy by his brother, escapes to a parallel world of photography, and falls in love with Herakles - a golden young man who leaves Geryon at the peak of infatuation. This is an epic poem.
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
Category: Poetry
This is a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. Tormented as a boy by his brother, Geryon escapes to a parallel world of photography. He falls deeply in love with Herakles, a golden young man, who deserts him at the peak of infatuation. So Geryon retreats ever further into ...Show more
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his ...Show more
Bakkhai by Anne Carson
Category: Classic Fiction
Anne Carson writes, "Euripides was a playwright of the fifth century BC who reinvented Greek tragedy, setting it on a path that leads straight to reality TV. His plays broke all the rules, upended convention and outraged conservative critics. The Bakkhai is his most subversive play, telling the story of ...Show more
Decreation by Anne Carson
Category: Poetry
In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson contemplates 'decreation' -an activity described by Simone Weil as 'undoing the creature in us' -an undoing of self. But how can we undo self without moving through self, to the very inside of its definition? Where else can we start?Anne Carson's Decrea ...Show more
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera by Anne Carson
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback)
Simone Weil described "decreation" as "undoing the creature in us"-an undoing of self. In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson explores this idea with characteristic brilliance and a tantalizing range of reference, moving from Aphrodite to Antonioni, Demosthenes to Annie Dillard, Telemachos t ...Show more