The Fourth Dimension - Couverture souple

Ritsos, Yannis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0691024650 ISBN 13 : 9780691024653

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1993

Synopsis

In the dramatic monologues that make up The Fourth Dimension-especially those based on the grim history of Mycenae and its royal protagonists-the celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos presents a timeless poetic paradigm of the condition of Greece, past and present. The volume also contains a group of modern narratives, including the famous, and much-anthologized, "Moonlight Sonata" Ritsos, rightly, regarded the The Fourth Dimension as his finest achievement. It is now presented to English- speaking readers for the first time in its entirety. From "Philoctetes" All the speeches of great men, about the dead and about heroes. Astonishing, awesome words, pursued us even in our sleep, slipping beneath closed doors, from the banqueting hall where glasses and voices sparkled, and the veil of an unseen dancer rippled silently like a diaphanous, whirling wall between life and death. This throbbing our childhood nights, lightening the shadows of shields etched on white walls by slow moonlight.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Peter Green is Professor of Classics at the University of Texas in Austin. The author of numerous scholarly works, he has also written several volumes of historical fiction, including The Laughter of Aphrodite (Murray/World; paperback forthcoming from University of California Press). Beverly Bardsley, a free-lance translator, lives in Austin.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

In Greece, more than most places, past and present, living and dead, have always coexisted : against the backdrop of that spare, harsh, beautiful limestone landscape, ideas and heroes have battled through the centuries. Homer and Makriyannis tell the same story. Those who fought for freedom against a Persian invasion share voices and profiles with the anti-Nazi guerrillas of World War II -not to mention their common habit of internecine stasis, civil war. Feuds and vendettas, the endless remembrance of ancient wrongs, run unbroken from the doomed house of Atreus to the bloody political infighting that still surfaces today. Ghosts crowd the islands ; Trojans and Turks are indistinguishable. All this is the fabric of the poetry of Yannis Ritsos.

In the dramatic monologues that make up The Fourth Dimension-especially those based on the grim history of Mycenae and its royal protagonists : Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Orestes, Electra, Iphigenia-Ritsos presents a timeless poetic paradigm of the condition of Greece. These soliloquies (the speakers also include Ajax, Persephone, Helen, and Phaedra) moue effortlessly between mythic and modem realities, haunting yet immediate. The volume also contains a group of modem narratives, including the famous, and much-anthologized, "Moonlight Sonata." Ritsos regarded The Fourth Dimension, rightly, as his finest achievement. Much of it previously untranslated, it is now presented to English-speaking readers for the first time in its entirety : the major work that demonstrates his status as one of the greatest poets of this century.

Peter Green is Professor of Classics at the University of Texas in Austin. The author of numerous scholarly works, he has also written several volumes of historical fiction, including The Laughter of Aphrodite (Murray/World ; paperback forthcoming from University of California Press). Beverly Bardsley, a freelance translator, also lives in Austin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691024650
• ISBN 13: 9780691024653
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 348
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• Personne responsable: non disponible