Antigonick - Winner of the Criticos Prize

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I’ve always been quite fond of the tale of Antigone, the daughter of tragic hero Oedipus and his mother Jocasta who stands up in defiance of the State and her own Uncle. Recommendation: if this book were the standard text of the play alone, I'd probably give it four stars, and I'd recommend it for the text to people interested in ancient drama in modern translation. I felt like giving thanks the entire time I was reading it, that Anne Carson has written a translation of Sophocles's Antigone that manages to be very beautiful and very funny and utterly surprising, all at the same time. net, says the illustrations "lack the depth, in both subject and style, to dovetail with Carson's translation.

By leaving us with Nick, still measuring, Carson inverts the traditional Sophoklean notion that it is better to learn, as Kreon does, even too late.

I do love the other Anne Carson books I own, and this truncation of Sophocles* original play Antigone is a gem. Antigonick conveys the nonsensical results of most translations of ancient Greek – the banality of stichomythia, the lists of question-words, the improbable coinages. It's a powerful contemplation on the right to resist the ruthless tyrant and his wars of conquests, the right to remain true to one's own human values and defy the appropriation of "patriotism" by corrupt and brutal rulers. It’s indeed an act of revolt when Antigone secretly buries his brother Polyneikes against King Kreon’s tyranny where a domino effect of mishap and pain follows.

S. Eliot Prize, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry, and Glass, Irony and God, shortlisted for the Forward Prize. A nick of time is the gap between your eyes, the gap between a prelapsarian nothingness and a memory-swollen nothingness. Ismene herself is, in some sense, a soldier for the status quo, preferring to support a corrupt government than defend her own rights. Her latest book is The Trojan Women , a collaboration with Rosanna Bruno in a comic book reimagining of Euripides' tragedy, published in 2021 by New Directions (USA) and Bloodaxe Books (UK). Carson's translation plays delightfully with the idea that a work of art changes and accumulates meanings as it moves through time.You are a person in love with the impossible,’ Ismene admonishes Antigone, pleading with her ‘ don’t cross the line…girls can’t force their way against men. In this aspect, and occasionally even in its style, it's reminiscent of Ezra Pound's Sophokles: Women of Trachis . Hand-inked text blocks—at times just one sentence set like a horizon on the page—are overlaid with vellum transparencies of artist Bianca Stone’s abstract illustrations. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

and such) as if written by an adolescent barely familiar with the CliffNotes version of the original play. This is where Carson’s work is best staged: in the uncanny gateway between the temporal and the timeless; in the nick between the world of powerboats and the sublime, terrifying realm of the dead and the still lively gods. The print is in the form of Carson's own handwriting, with little or no punctuation, giving the tale a frantic, nervous feel. Antigonick is her first attempt at making translation into a combined visual and textual experience: it will provoke poetry readers, classical scholars, theatre people and comic-book aficionados. Repito que no soy una experta en la materia, aunque no creo que a los expertos le importe mucho todo esto, al fin y al cabo, he aquí este libro.

Sophokles' luminous and disturbing tragedy is here given an entirely fresh language and presentation. She meets his autocracy with insolence, as if to say: this breed of extremism can only be met with extremes. Both die and their uncle Creon declares that Eteocles shall receive a proper burial, while Polynices, a traitor, must lie unburied, to be eaten by birds and dogs. Bianca Stone, author of the chapbook Someone Else's Wedding Vows , received her MFA from New York University in 2009, and is the editor of Monk Books.