Antigonick

Resumen del libro

An illustrated new translation of Sophokles- Antigone.

With text blocks hand-inked on the page by Anne Carson and her collaborator Robert Currie, Antigonick features translucent vellum pages with stunning drawings by Bianca Stone that overlay the text.

Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick is her first attempt at making translation into a combined visual and textual experience. Sophokles- luminous and disturbing tragedy is here given an entirely fresh language and presentation. Thoroughly delightful.

Bianca Stone, the author of Someone Else Wedding Vows, received her MFA from NYU in 2009 and is the editor of Monk Books. Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living at New York University. Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the MacArthur -Genius- Award. She is the author of Nox; Glass, Irony and God; The Autobiography of Red; The Beauty of the Husband; Decreation; Economy of the Unlost; Eros the Bittersweet; Grief Lessons; If Not, Winter; Men in the Off Hours; and Plainwater.

-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

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

Biografía del autor

Se define a sí misma como una artista "que hace cuadros, cerámica, cómics y chistes malos". Ha sido becada por instituciones de la talla de la New York Foundation for the Arts,Yaddo y la Rauschenberg Foundation, entre otras. Sus ilustraciones han aparecido en medios como The Paris Review, BOMB, Times Literary Suplement (TLS) o The Daily Beast.