The Waste Land and Other Poems
第一次大戦後の荒廃した文明と断絶を、神話・宗教・文学の断片を重ねながら描き出す長詩。断片化された語りと多層的な引用によって、喪失、再生、そして精神の乾いた風景を探る20世紀モダニズムの代表作である。
作品情報
四月は最も残酷な月から始まる、喪失と再生の長詩。
第一次大戦後の不穏な空気と文化的断絶を背景に、神話や聖書、古典文学の響きを織り込みながら進む長詩。岩波文庫版は『プルーフロックその他の観察』から『荒地』までの主要詩篇を収め、詳細な訳注で読解を支える。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Faber & Faber
- 発売日
- 2002-01-02
- ページ数
- 96ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13 x 0.8 x 19.8 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780571097128
- ISBN-10
- 9780571097128
- 価格
- 2328 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain . . . Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation which has lost none of its power as we enter a new century.
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He settled in England in 1915 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.
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Un magnifique classique à mettre dans toutes les mains !
Faisant des études d'anglais, ce livre fut obligatoire pour les cours. Quoiqu'un peu complexe au début, par la suite, on est entraîné par Eliot dans sa perception du monde actuel et de ses pensées les plus profondes sur la vie, l'être humain et l'amour. N'hésitez pas !
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Perfect for Bachelor
I bought this book as an extra to my literary studies seminar and it was really useful. The annotations at the back are a life safer, specially when it comes to analysing Prufrock.
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MaravillosoA fractured mirror of the modern soul
Reading The Waste Land feels like walking through a ruined cathedral with fragments of beauty still shimmering in the dust. Eliot doesn't offer answers—he offers echoes, ghosts, broken voices layered like collage. As an artist and someone who moves between disciplines, I found the poem both challenging and strangely comforting. It reflects the noise, the longing, the fragmentation of the modern mind. There’s despair, yes—but also a haunting kind of music beneath the surface, like a melody half-remembered in a dream. Eliot demands a lot, but what he gives in return is a glimpse into the raw architecture of cultural memory, spiritual thirst, and the quiet dignity of survival.
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Review of Kindle Edition of The Waste Land and Other Poems
I'm very pleased with this edition. I'm reading The Waste Land for a class and am happy to report that the stanza formatting has been retained, the Table of Contents is linked to the individual poems, and the superscripts link to the actual notes. I loaded my T.S. Eliot Reads The Waste Land onto my Kindle, and it's really neat following along with his reading. The Introduction, Suggestions for Further Reading, and Brief Chronology are also greatly appreciated. VERY well spent $2.50!!
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Grande libro
Non sono per nulla un esperto di poesia, ma (parafraso una citazione famosa) mi accorgo quando una poesia mi piace oppure no. Il libro è in inglese, ma la lingua che Eliot usa non è difficile, quindi si riesce ad apprezzare sia il significato che la metrica. L'edizione mi sembra buona, senza particolari pecche.
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