All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten - Softcover

Logue, Christopher

 
9780374529291: All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0374529299 ISBN 13: 9780374529291
Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly,
Emptying her blood-red mouth-set in her ice-white face-
Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked:

"Kill! Kill for me!
Better to die than live without killing!"

Who says prayer does no good?

Christopher Logue's work in progress, his Iliad, has been called "the best translation of Homer since Pope's" (The New York Review of Books). Here in All Day Permanent Red is doomed Hector, the lion, "slam-scattering the herd" at the height of his powers. Here is the Greek army rising with a sound like a "sky-wide Venetian blind." Here is an arrow's tunnel, "the width of a lipstick," through a neck. Like Homer himself, Logue is quick to mix the ancient and the new, because his Troy exists outside time, and no translator has a more Homeric interest in the truth of battle, or in the absurdity and sublimity of war.

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Christopher Logue

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Verlag
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0374529299
ISBN 13 
9780374529291
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
64
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