Men in the Off Hours
古典、映画、神話、断章的な散文と詩が交差する作品集。オイディプスやエミリー・ディキンソン、オードゥボンなど多様な人物を呼び戻し、知的な遊びと静かな喪失感を同じページに置いていく。
作品情報
古典と現代、詩と散文がぶつかり合い、ひとつの呼吸にまとまる。
Anne Carson の代表的な実験性がよく出た詩集で、短詩、散文、翻案、断章が自在に行き来する。古代ギリシア・ローマの響きと現代の感覚を結び、人物や神話の断片を思考の場へ変えていく。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Knopf
- 発売日
- 2000-02-29
- ページ数
- 176ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 14.61 x 1.91 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780375408038
- ISBN-10
- 0375408037
- 価格
- 5721 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
Following her widely acclaimed Autobiography of Red ("A spellbinding achievement" --Susan Sontag), a new collection of poetry and prose that displays Anne Carson's signature mixture of opposites--the classic and the modern, cinema and print, narrative and verse. In Men in the Off Hours , Carson reinvents figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson, and Audubon. She views the writings of Sappho, St. Augustine, and Catullus through a modern lens. She sets up startling juxtapositions (Lazarus among video paraphernalia; Virginia Woolf and Thucydides discussing war). And in a final prose poem, she meditates on the recent death of her mother. With its quiet, acute spirituality, its fearless wit and sensuality, and its joyful understanding that "the fact of the matter for humans is imperfection," Men in the Off Hours shows us "the most exciting poet writing in English today" (Michael Ondaatje) at her best.
Anne Carson lives in Canada.
レビュー
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Reinventing the role of poetry and prose (from Sapph to Virginia Wollf to nowadays)
I love all lovely literary works written by Anne Carson, especiaaly: IF NOT WINTER, Eros the Bittersweet, etc.
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Impression amazon de très mauvaise qualité
Si vous achetez en France, sachez qu'il s'agit d'une impression Amazon de très mauvaise qualité: l'impression de la couverture et très floue et à l'intérieur ça se voit que c'est de mauvaise qualité aussi, c'est désagréable à lire
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Five Stars
Ok
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Beautiful, engaging
Beautiful, engaging, linking past with present. Thought provoking and moving immediately and then allowing space for you to find further meaning over time. A really wonderful find. I will definitely of this poet.
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