Norma Jeane Baker av Troja är en meditation över skönhetens destruktiva kraft. Med utgångspunkt i Euripides drama Helena väver Anne Carson samman två berömda kvinnogestalter: Helena, för vars skull Trojanska kriget utkämpades, och Norma Jeane Baker/…

In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson contemplates 'decreation' - an activity described by Simone Weil as 'undoing the creature in us' - an undoing of self. Where else can we start?Anne Carson's Decreation starts with form - the undoing…

Vad gör man när man avslutat På spaning efter den tid som flytt och hamnat i den öken som breder ut sig Efter Proust? Man kan till exempel ta notis om Albertine, den kvinna med vilken romanens manliga berättarjag har sitt mest ingående förhållande.…

Makens skönhet – en fiktiv essä i 29 tangos – är en poetisk berättelse om ett äktenskap. Utifrån den romantiske poeten John Keats tanke att ”det sköna är det sanna” tecknar Anne Carson en kärlekshistoria som börjar tidigt, på…

”Jag gör vad som helst för att undvika långtråkighet. Det är en livsuppgift. Man kan aldrig veta nog, aldrig arbeta nog, aldrig använda infinitiv eller particip besynnerligt nog, aldrig hejda rörelsen bryskt nog, aldrig överge tanken snabbt no…

Hegel writes in his Aesthetics The Antigone is one of the most sublime and in every respect most excellent works of art of all time. Simone Weil writes in a notebook: Great literary works: veils drawn in front of truth, but transparent veils. Electr…

In this innovative rendition of "The Oresteia", the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions - Aischylos' 'Agamemnon', Sophokles' 'Elektra', and Euripides' 'Orestes' - giving birth to a wholly new experience of the…

* The definitive and ONLY complete translation of Sappho, by one of the world's greatest living poets

The insights presented in the volume are many and wide-ranging, recognizably in tune with the subtlest modern discussions of desire (such as triangulation. or loving what others love), yet offering new solutions to old problems, like the proper inte…

The insights presented in the volume are many and wide-ranging, recognizably in tune with the subtlest modern discussions of desire (such as triangulation. or loving what others love), yet offering new solutions to old problems, like the proper inte…

The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats's idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end. This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly fu…

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a partly spoken, partly sung performance piece by poet, essayist, and scholar Anne Carson, and an exploration of the lives and myths of Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy—iconic beauties who lived millennia apart. A…

Pentheus has banned the wild, ritualistic worship of the god Dionysos. A stranger arrives to persuade him to change his mind. Euripides electrifying tragedy is a struggle to the death between freedom and restraint, the rational and the irrational, m…

Anne Carsons storartade debut från 1986 presenteras nu för första gången på svenska. I denna essäbok, som idag ses som en klassiker, undersöker Carson uppkomsten av begreppet ”eros” i det antika Grekland genom att studera den tidens poes…

Anne Carsons storartade debut från 1986 presenteras nu för första gången på svenska. I denna essäbok, som idag ses som en klassiker, undersöker Carson uppkomsten av begreppet ”eros” i det antika Grekland genom att studera den tidens poes…

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane…

Broder vin mjölk honung blommor.Blommor mjölk honung broder vin.Hur lång tid tar det för ljudet att dö ut? I sin tredje diktsamling, Lediga män, som utkom i original år 2000, visar Anne ­Carson upp hela sin litterära bredd: hon samläser Thukydi…

The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. Geryon, a young boy who is also a…

In this extraordinary epic poem, Anne Carson bridges the gap between classicism and the modern, poetry and prose, with a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon.

Nox is an epitaph in the form of a book, a facsimile of a handmade book Anne Carson wrote and created after the death of her brother. The poem describes coming to terms with his loss through the lens of her translation of Poem 101 by Catullus "for h…

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 enemi…

When her dead brother is decreed a traitor, his body left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone refuses to accept this most severe of punishments. Defying her uncle who governs, she dares to say ‘No’. Forging ahead with a funeral alon…

I Röd självbiografi (Panache 2009) berättade Anne Carson om den unge pojken Geryon – ett rött bevingat monster – och hans olyckliga kärlek till den vackre Herakles, som krossar hans hjärta. Utifrån den antika myten skapade hon en modern…

**New York Magazine's Top 10 Books of 2013** **GoodReads Reader's Choice Award Winner** Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles. Recently I began to wonder what happened to them…

A provocative anthology of poetry and prose by the Canadian intellectual includes selections from "Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings," "Short Talks," "Canicula di Anna," "The Life of Towns," and "The Anthropology of Water." Reprint.

Vad har den antike grekiske poeten Simonides, känd för att ha uppfunnit minneskonsten och för att varit först med att ta betalt för poesi, att göra med Paul Celan, den tyska efterkrigslitteraturens ordkarge mästarpoet?Svaret heter Det oförlorades ek…

By combining the ancient mysteries of Sappho with the contemporary wizardry of one of our most fearless and original poets, If Not, Winter provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric power spans millennia. Of the nine books…

I am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of Tyndareus My father killed me Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson. The New York Times Book Review calls her work "personal, necessary, and importan…

Translating the experience of film: filmmakers, writers, and artists explore the elements of film that make us feel "outside and inside at the same time.""Every film is a foreign film," Atom Egoyan and Ian Balfour tell us in their introduction to Su…

Here is a new comic-book version of Euripides's classic The Trojan Women, which follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache, and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. This collaboration between the visual artist Rosanna Bruno and…

This new comic-book version of Euripides’ classic The Trojan Women follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. The Trojan Women is a wildly imaginative collaboration between the visu…

From the renowned classicist and MacArthur Prize winner: a new collection that explores myth and memory, beauty and loss, all the while playing with--and pushing--the limits of language and form. Anne Carson consistently dazzles with her inventive,…

Sophocles' Electra tells the story of the revenge Orestes and Electra take on their mother, Clytemnestra, for the murder of their father Agamemnon, after he returns from the Trojan War. In Sophocles' depiction of this myth, Electra admits that her a…

In a stunningly original mix of poetry, drama, and narrative, Anne Carson brings the red-winged Geryon from Autobiography of Red, now called 'G', into manhood, and through the complex labyrinths of the modern age.

A New Statesman / Observer Book of the Year'She pinpoints the collision of oracle and anachronism.' - Teju Cole, ObserverAnne Carson dazzles us, book after book, with her inventiveness, her ranging imagination, and the way her work utterly changes o…

Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent profile, The New York Times Magazine paid tribute to her amazing ability to combine the classical and the modern, the mundane and the surreal, in a b…

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.

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeA book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of eros in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, It wa…

"The Blue of Distance," published to accompany a group exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum, is a reflection on the color blue's uncanny relationship to absence, desire and distance. Featuring photography, drawing, sculpture and sound by the artists V…

Pieni ja elegantti Albertine-harjoitus sukeltaa akateemisen esitelmän ja lyriikan keinoin Marcel Proustin Kadonnutta aikaa etsimässä-romaanisarjassa esitellyn Albertinen mysteeriin. Anne Carsonin essee muistuttaa yhä uusintoisiinsa punostuvin havain…

I nummer 3 2010 försöker vi ta oss an några av litteraturens grundläggande frågor: Vad är fult och vad är fint? Hur ska man egentligen skriva, och hur ska man inte skriva? Kan romanens gränser förändras? Detta gör vi genom att diskutera litteraturen…

I bogen, Looking Writing Reading Looking, går 26 internationale forfattere i dialog med kunstværker fra Louisianas Samling. Forfatterne åbner vores øjne for værkerne med deres særlige, poetiske blik. Igennem en bred vifte af litterære genrer som dig…

Det borde inte finnas några vapen; vapen är oumbärliga. Begränsande konventioner och deklarationer produceras i samma takt som svensk vapenexport bara ökar och ökar. Gläntas nya nummer speglar en motsägelsefullhet som verkar vara en del av vapnets e…

This pioneering anthology goes beyond awareness building to engage seriously with the societal prevalence of sexist abuse and domestic violence, and the legacies of that abuse and violence in the lives of survivors. Approaching difficult subject mat…

A remarkable compilation of literary writings by the critically acclaimed author of Autobiography of Red features an array of original poetry, essays, a screenplay, and a libretto that explores the nature and mechanics of the human act of decreation…

Sim nides de Ceos fue el primer poeta en aceptar dinero por su trabajo po tico. Con base en este hecho Anne Carson elabora su genial exploraci n sobre la econom a en la escritura. Su ensayo ofrece lecturas varias sobre algunos de los poemas m s rele…