If Not, Winter: Fragments Of Sappho - Couverture souple

Carson, Anne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1844080811 ISBN 13 : 9781844080816

Editeur : Virago, 2003

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

From the critically acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson: a brilliant new translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek.
During her life on the island of Lesbos, Sappho is said to have composed nine books of lyrics. Only one poem has survived complete. In IF NOT, WINTER, Carson presents all the extant fragments of Sappho's verse, employing brackets and white space to denote missing text - allowing the reader to imagine the poems as they were written.
Carson says of her method of translation: 'I like to think that, the more I stand out of the way, the more Sappho shows through.' And certainly her translation illuminates Sappho's reflections on love and desire, her companions and rivals, the goddess Aphrodite, her own daughter, Kleis. IF NOT, WINTER gives us an extraordinary ancient poet brought alive by a brilliantly empathetic contemporary poet. Complete with Carson's introduction and notes, it will become the standard translation of Sappho for our time.

Extrait :

Fragment 22

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]work
]face
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if not, winter
]no pain
]]I bid you sing
of Gongyla, Abanthis, taking up
your lyre as (now again) longing
floats around you,

you beauty. For her dress when you saw it
stirred you. And I rejoice.
In fact she herself once blamed me
Kyprogeneia

because I prayed
this word:
I want


Fragment 47
Eros shook my
mind like a mountain wind falling on oak trees
Fragment 52

I would not think to touch the sky with two arms


Fragment 56

not one girl I think
who looks on the light of the sun
will ever
have wisdom
like this

Fragment 147
someone will remember us
I say
even in another time
Fragment 162

with what eyes?
From the Hardcover edition.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Virago
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1844080811
• ISBN 13: 9781844080816
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416