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Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
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Writing with a pitch and heat that gets to the heart of the unforgiving classical world, Carson, a poet and classicist, translates four of the eighteen surviving plays by Euripides.
Includes Heracles, Hecuba, Hippolytus, Alcestis.
Includes Heracles, Hecuba, Hippolytus, Alcestis.
312 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1,-0416
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312 pages, Hardcover
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August 1, 2006 by NYRB Classics
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9781590171806
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1590171802
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English
About the author
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Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980 to 1987. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also won a Lannan Literary Award.
Carson (with background in classical languages, comparative literature, anthropology, history, and commercial art) blends ideas and themes from many fields in her writing. She frequently references, modernizes, and translates Ancient Greek literature. She has published eighteen books as of 2013, all of which blend the forms of poetry, essay, prose, criticism, translation, dramatic dialogue, fiction, and non-fiction. She is an internationally acclaimed writer. Her books include Antigonick, Nox, Decreation, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry; Economy of the Unlost; Autobiography of Red, shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry, and Glass, Irony and God, shortlisted for the Forward Prize. Carson is also a classics scholar, the translator of If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, and the author of Eros the Bittersweet. Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship. Her latest book, Red Doc>, was shortlisted for the 2013 T.S. Elliot Prize.
Carson (with background in classical languages, comparative literature, anthropology, history, and commercial art) blends ideas and themes from many fields in her writing. She frequently references, modernizes, and translates Ancient Greek literature. She has published eighteen books as of 2013, all of which blend the forms of poetry, essay, prose, criticism, translation, dramatic dialogue, fiction, and non-fiction. She is an internationally acclaimed writer. Her books include Antigonick, Nox, Decreation, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry; Economy of the Unlost; Autobiography of Red, shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry, and Glass, Irony and God, shortlisted for the Forward Prize. Carson is also a classics scholar, the translator of If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, and the author of Eros the Bittersweet. Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship. Her latest book, Red Doc>, was shortlisted for the 2013 T.S. Elliot Prize.
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You can't go wrong with Anne Carson. These four tragedies are a really great introduction to Euripides as it is, but her introductions are an incredible addition.
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W tragedies, Hippolytos especially
Anne Carson’s translation is fresh, casual
With broad middle class appeal
Very readable
A certain kind of terse academic
cloistered in a stuffy office
Would probably take offense
Anne Carson’s translation is fresh, casual
With broad middle class appeal
Very readable
A certain kind of terse academic
cloistered in a stuffy office
Would probably take offense
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3,5/5
The writing is goodn as always with Anne Carson, but some of the plays didn't work for me.
The writing is goodn as always with Anne Carson, but some of the plays didn't work for me.
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A great read tbh! And I really valued Carson's prefaces!
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Not yet having read, but this quote makes me want to:
“Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.”
“Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.”
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—Read Hippolytus for SJC Weekend Classics session
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I could read a whole book of Anne Carson's essays and the prefatory material. Her translation of Euripides' 'Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra' at the very end is electric, especially with her wonderful talent for interpretation (I wonder what the original language for 'chainsmoking nihilism' is). The plays themselves, however, are translated with much less spark.
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