Antigonick - Winner of the Criticos Prize

Product Information

Carson updates the language to current times, with Antigone feeling rather modern herself with snarky responses such as when Kreon asks if she is the one who touched the body, Antigone spits out ‘ BINGO.

Some of her best works merge her two roles: Nox, a facsimile of Carson's own scrapbook, presented the reader with notes for a translation of a Catullus' elegy for his brother, poem 101, alongside photographs and notes detailing the history of her own brother, Michael, who died after a long disappearance.I was the fool, not you,” he cries out, addressing his dead son, “to trample out the thing I held most dear. While one certainly wouldn’t mistake this as a direct translation, much of the aspects, such as the aforementioned historical critiques on the original tale, remind us of things a translator would inevitably be aware of in translating the work. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Like all great Greek classics, the stories can be modernized and adjusted to new conditions to say new things. On separate translucent vellum pages, the artist Bianca Stone has created stunning drawings to overlay the text. only add dimension to a work that does not need any support to be completely satisfying and intriguing.I have seen enough student drawings of things like horse's legs entangled with threads and punctured by nails (as in one picture) to know that those images stem from from the artist's previous studio experiments, not from "Antigone. I enjoyed my reading experience, but honestly found parts of the translation took away from the language I liked in previous translations I have read of Antigone. When Sophokles’s Kreon loses his beloved son and his wife, his pride finally crumbles, and he recognizes it was his “own blind heart” that caused their deaths.

In the opening scene of the play, Antigone tells her sister Ismene she intends to bury their brother. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980 to 1987.The characters of the play even comment on various interpretations that have been offered by Bertolt Brecht and G. But somehow the grip of the original poem is still there, refracted and hollowed out and exposed from the beginning as pompous, hot-gas, baggy stuff. Antigone will quote Hegel via Samuel Beckett, observe Jacques Lacan’s idea of Antigone as ‘ between two deaths’, or Judith Butler who finds her ‘ the occasion for a new field of the human’ and wrote Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death where she observes that Antigone upsets gender traditions through her role that would traditionally be expected to be a man and, with Eurydike’s mention of finding Antigone a therapist, questions if we had taken Antigone instead of Oedipus as the departure of psychoanalysis. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. But of course there is hope look here comes hope / wandering in / to tickle your feet // Then you notice the soles are on fire.

With this work, I not only read reviews/essays but found a video of Anne Carson performing the work. She is a heroine who has been interpreted by critics in myriad ways: for Hegel, she represents the ethical value of the family against the state; for George Eliot, the strength of intellect against society; for Anouilh, during the French resistance, the rejection of authority. Like AE Housman's parodic " Fragment of a Greek Tragedy" ("ALCMAEON: I journeyed hither a Boetian road.It is really three books in one: a English language version of Sophocles' Antigone by Anne Carson, a designed book (non-standard, artistic layout, paper, binding, printing) by Robert Currie, and a book of illustrations by Bianca Stone. Within the dialogue there are many references to nick, as in the nick of time, and you can imagine how a director could have a great deal of fun with this mute character, always onstage and always measuring. When asked if she was the one who went against Creon's edict and buried her brother, Antigone replied, "Bingo! Some words are translated directly, some are paraphrased, but it’s all still there, yet it’s different. There is no poetry, no dramatic sensibility, all the themes are lost in the apparent need to be witty (variably successful) with frequent contemporary jargons ("Bingo!