Antigonick (New Directions Paperbook) - Softcover

Carson, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811222926 ISBN 13: 9780811222921

Publisher: New Directions, 2015

Synopsis

An illustrated new translation of Sophokles’ Antigone.

Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick is her seminal work. Sophokles’ luminous and disturbing tragedy is here given an entirely fresh language and presentation. This paperback edition includes a new preface by the author, “Dear Antigone.”

About this title

About the Author:

Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living.

Review:

“Carson is nothing less than brilliant―unfalteringly sharp indiction, audacious, and judicious in taking liberties.”
- Publishers Weekly

“Reading Anne Carson is to experience aeuphonious, mystical sort of perplexity.”
- Richard Bernstein, The New York Times

“She reaches past the contemporary moment to craft her unique and universal voice, one that is both as ancient as Sappho and intimidatingly modern.”
- Washington Square News

“People who don’t read poetry read Anne Carson.”
- Deborah Landau

“She is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anything she wrote.”
- Susan Sontag

“It is a cry of grief posed in question form, emphatic, handwritten, excessive and abbreviated and, in this sense, a measured scream that gives us some sense of who or what lives on when it is all too late.”
- Judith Butler, Public Books

“Her poetry is light, swift, and beautiful.”
- The New Yorker

“The reader, the listener is provoked and challenged to the utmost.”
- The Times Literary Supplement

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A beautiful, bewildering book, wondrous and a bit scary to behold, that gives a reader much to think about without making it clear how she should feel.

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- Slate

“Ms. Carson does more than just update the language and quicken the pacing–she rewrites the play, mines its subtleties, its absurdity and its strangely comic timing and manages to produce a unique text out of a story that goes back much further than the fifth century when Sophocles wrote his version.”
- The Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0811222926
• ISBN 13: 9780811222921
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 51