The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (Vintage Contemporaries)
アン・カーソンが、結婚の崩壊を29の『タンゴ』に分けて描いた詩的散文作品。キーツの美学への応答を軸に、愛着、欺瞞、執着の揺れを鋭く見つめる。
作品情報
愛と美の関係を、壊れていく結婚の物語として切り詰めた、鮮烈な一冊。
キーツの『beauty is truth』を手がかりに、ひとつの結婚が崩れていく過程を29の『タンゴ』で描く。抑制された言葉のなかに、知性と痛みが濃密に結びつく。
レビュー要約
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読者は、鋭い比喩と冷静な観察が生む切れ味を評価することが多い。感情の激しさと知的な組み立てが同居する一方で、参照の密度に圧倒されるという声もある。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- 発売日
- 2002-02-19
- ページ数
- 160ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.21 x 1.02 x 20.27 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780375707575
- ISBN-10
- 0375707573
- 価格
- 3105 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Arts & Photography/Performing Arts/Dance/Tango
The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end. This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single story in an immediate, accessible voice–29 “tangos” of narrative verse that take us vividly through erotic, painful, and heartbreaking scenes from a long-time marriage that falls apart. Only award-winning poet Anne Carson could create a work that takes on the oldest of lyrical subjects–love–and make it this powerful, this fresh, this devastating.
ANNE CARSON was born in Canada and has been a professor of Classics for over thirty years. Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.
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The story of a marriage from its beginning to its end. Each "tango" is a dance that swirls you through the doubts and difficulties of marriage. Sometimes the wife leads, sometimes the husband takes the lead, sometimes both dance together, many far apart. It's a poem, it's prose, it's a song... I could not put it down!
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Its the best written lyrical lines We empathize with the sadness of writer The journey of marriage that every body has expectations of joy, commitment, trust, chastity and love. Beauty is truth and that all i know.
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Stunning writing
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Quite intense story written in poetic format
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Great read for lovers of poetry or romantic word play
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