All Day Permanent Red - Couverture souple

Logue, Christopher

 
9780374529291: All Day Permanent Red
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0374529299 ISBN 13 : 9780374529291
Editeur : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004

Synopsis

Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly,
Emptying her blood-red mouth--set in her ice-white face--
Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked:

"Kill! Kill for me!
Better to die than live without killing!"

Who says prayer does no good?

Christopher Logue's work in progress, his Iliad, has been called "the best translation of Homer since Pope's" (The New York Review of Books). Here in All Day Permanent Red is doomed Hector, the lion, "slam-scattering the herd" at the height of his powers. Here is the Greek army rising with a sound like a "sky-wide Venetian blind." Here is an arrow's tunnel, "the width of a lipstick," through a neck. Like Homer himself, Logue is quick to mix the ancient and the new, because his Troy exists outside time, and no translator has a more Homeric interest in the truth of battle, or in the absurdity and sublimity of war.

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À propos de l?auteur

Christopher Logue is a screenwriter, a film actor, and the author of several books of poems. He lives in London, England.

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Éditeur
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0374529299
ISBN 13 
9780374529291
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
64
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780374102951: All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad : Rewritten

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0374102953 ISBN 13 :  9780374102951
Editeur : Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2003
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