H of H Playbook
Anne Carson
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Published: 4th Nov '21
£20.00
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.
SKU: 9781787333796
Categories: Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Poetry by individual poets, Traditional stories, myths and fairy talesDescription
‘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 HubH 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.
Additional information
Weight | 0.55 kg |
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Dimensions | 20 × 151 × 225 mm |
Page Count | 208 |
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