Antigonick
by:
Anne Carson (author)
Bianca Stone (author)
An illustrated new translation of Sophokles’ Antigone.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...
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An illustrated new translation of Sophokles’ Antigone.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 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. Thoroughly delightful.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780811219570 (0811219577)
Publish date: May 10th 2012
Publisher: New Directions
Pages no: 180
Edition language: English
I honestly don't know what the fuck I just read, but I enjoyed it immensely. I'll reread a few dozen times and write something coherent.
Well, okay, here's this. Pretty illustrated edition! I like pretty things.Here's an article about this translation. Note that Carson has apparently turned Antigone into "a suicide bomber."Compare with Seamus Heaney's translation, in which Creon turns into a dig on GW Bush. Antigone is a flexible pie...
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