H of H Playbook - Anne Carson

Brand: Jonathan Cape | Status: Còn hàng

600.000₫

"This is a beautifully made book, a beautiful object. The writing—a recasting and semi-translation of Herakles by Euripides—is more problematic: often wonderful, often too clever by half. Carson is considered an intellectual author, and in many ways she is, but she is also a popularizer, with the flaws that “effort” can engender. In many ways, what she does—often with Greek myth—is resonant of what Laurie Anderson, in a very different milieu, does: but Anderson is better, more authentic, less glib." - Goodreads Reviewers

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'Fans of Anne Carson, rejoice!... Carson's depth of knowledge about Greek mythology coupled with her poetic sensibility and illustrations is sure to breathe new life into this oft-told story.' Lit Hub

H of H Playbook is an explosion of thought, in drawings and language, about a Greek tragedy called Herakles by the 5th-century BC poet Euripides. In myth Herakles is an embodiment of manly violence who returns home after years of making war on enemies and monsters (his famous "Labours of Herakles") to find he cannot adapt himself to a life of peacetime domesticity. He goes berserk and murders his whole family. Suicide is his next idea. Amazingly, this does not happen. Due to the intervention of his friend Theseus, Herakles comes to believe he is not, after all, indelibly stained by his own crimes, nor is his life without value. It remains for the reader to judge this redemptive outcome.

"I think there is no such thing as an innocent landscape," said Anselm Kiefer, painter of forests grown tall on bones.