All Day Permanent Red - Couverture souple

Logue, Christopher

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.

A propos du livre

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.

Détails de l'édition

• 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