The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek - Couverture souple

Marcolongo, Andrea

 
9781787701830: The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek
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ISBN 10 : 1787701832 ISBN 13 : 9781787701830
Editeur : Europa Compass, 2019

Synopsis

“It is to the Greeks that we turn when we are sick of the vagueness, of the confusion, of our own age.”―Virginia Woolf

Discover a new passion for a very old language, a language that can express what can’t be said in any other, and thrillingly relevant to our lives today. A language that rewards desire by giving its own modal verb; bequeaths lovers a special case beyond singular and plural; prioritises mindfulness and dynamic presence through its very own grammar. A language that can transform our relationship to time and to those around us.

A love song to the language of the greatest poets, philosophers, adventurers, lovers, and generals that ever lived. In Marcolongo’s words: “Greek has been the longest and most beautiful romance of my life.” Whether or not readers are familiar with ancient Greek, they will find Marcolongo’s boundless enthusiasm for her subject utterly infectious.

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À propos des auteurs

Andrea Marcolongo is an Italian journalist, writers, Classics scholar, and former speech writer for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. The Ingenious Language was a bestseller in Italy and in many of the other dozen countries in which it has thus far been published. She is also the author of The Heroic Measure.

Will Schutt is the author of Westerly, winner of the 2012 Yale Series of Younger Poets award. His poems and translations have appeared in Agni, Narrative, The New Republic, and The Southern Review. For his translations of poems by Edoardo Sanguineti he received grants from the NEA and PEN/ America. He lives in Baltimore.

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Éditeur
Europa Compass
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1787701832
ISBN 13 
9781787701830
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Nombre de pages
176
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ISBN 10 :  1609455452 ISBN 13 :  9781609455453
Editeur : Europa Editions, 2019
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