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Anne Carson (1) (1950–)

Autor(a) de Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

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39+ Works 8,241 Membros 132 Críticas 8 Favorited

About the Author

Anne Carson was born December 16, 1950. Carson is a poet, an essayist, and a classicist. She is the director of the graduate program in Classics at McGill University, where she also teaches Latin and Greek. Carson is perhaps besst know for Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse, which won the 1998 mostrar mais QSPELL Prize for Poetry. Carson recently won the 2001 Griffin Poetry Prize for Men in the Off Hours. Carson also won the T.S. Eliot poetry prize for The Beauty of the Husband, the first woman to win the award in its nine-year history. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998 and received a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship in 2000. Carson is the author of seven books. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Obras por Anne Carson

Eros the Bittersweet (1986) 791 exemplares
Glass, Irony and God (1992) 623 exemplares
Nox (2010) 565 exemplares
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry (1995) 543 exemplares
Men in the Off Hours (2000) 430 exemplares
Decreation (2005) 414 exemplares
Red Doc> (2013) 356 exemplares
Antigonick (2012) 279 exemplares
Float (2016) 202 exemplares
Short Talks (1992) 192 exemplares
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (2019) 113 exemplares

Associated Works

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (2002) — Tradutor — 1,492 exemplares
Bacchae [translated] (0405) — Adapter — 701 exemplares
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (2006) — Tradutor — 353 exemplares
The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories (2004) — Contribuidor — 262 exemplares
The Best American Poetry 2001 (2001) — Contribuidor — 223 exemplares
The Best American Poetry 2004 (2004) — Contribuidor — 202 exemplares
The Art of Losing (2010) — Contribuidor — 199 exemplares
The Best American Poetry 2002 (2002) — Contribuidor — 182 exemplares
The Best American Poetry 1998 (1998) — Contribuidor — 161 exemplares
The Best American Essays 1992 (1992) — Contribuidor — 138 exemplares
Granta 110: Sex (2010) — Contribuidor — 124 exemplares
The Best American Poetry 2010 (2010) — Contribuidor — 121 exemplares
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Contribuidor — 116 exemplares
Before Sexuality (1990) — Contribuidor — 107 exemplares
The Best American Essays 1988 (1988) — Contribuidor — 97 exemplares
The Best American Poetry 2012 (2012) — Contribuidor — 83 exemplares
The Best American Poetry 2014 (2014) — Contribuidor — 80 exemplares
Granta 145: Ghosts (2018) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
Reading Sappho : contemporary approaches (1996) — Contribuidor — 41 exemplares
Granta 149: Europe: Strangers in the Land (2019) — Contribuidor — 40 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English (1999) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing (2015) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
Modern Women Poets (2005) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Conjunctions: 30, Paper Airplane (1998) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Innovations of Antiquity (1992) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Arethusa (vol 21 no 2) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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I loved the first two sections and the concluding essay*; the other pieces I was more neutral on. Star ratings feel particularly silly for this kind of reading experience, but.

*Well, the concluding essay was frequently horrifying because it so deeply excavates certain pervasive strains of patriarchal self-conception (and, always through the self, a conception of the world). But informative, enlightening even.
 
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localgayangel | 10 outras críticas | Mar 5, 2024 |
Most reviews are by people who really liked this book. I did not like this book. So it goes. Some of the individual pieces of the book are really quite good
I remember the sky behind her was purple she
came towards me saying
Why are you alone in this huge blank garden
like a piece of electricity?Electricity?
Maybe she said cakes and tea true we were drinking gin it was long past
teatime but she was a highly original woman
as you'd expect from an accomplished poet writing a novel in verse. But the overall story annoyed and bored me. Geryon, the red winged monster of ancient myth, is re-imagined as a sad, pushed-around modern boy/adolescent/young adult. Herakles is his first love. Rather than slay him as in myth, Herakles merely breaks his sad young heart and Geryon meekly goes back to his mother's house. Years later, they hook up one more time. Geryon cries, Herakles says
Can't you ever just fuck and not think?
Modern myth never looked like such weak brew next to the ancient.
… (mais)
 
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lelandleslie | 35 outras críticas | Feb 24, 2024 |
De schoonheid van de echtgenoot. Door: Anne Carson.

De eerste druk van De schoonheid van de echtgenoot verscheen in 2001 bij uitgeverij Meulenhoff, 23 jaar later brengt uitgeverij Koppernik een nieuwe versie uit.

Maggie Nelson is een grote fan van Carson, ze leest alles van haar las ik in een interview. Daarom lees ik Carson, grote fan van Maggie Nelson als ik ben. Ik begrijp (denk ik) wat Maggie zo aantrekt in het werk van Anne Carson: beiden hebben iets grensoverstijgends in hun denken en schrijven.

De schoonheid van de echtgenoot beschrijven is moeilijk. Op de cover staat: ‘een fictie-essay in 29 tango’s’. Ik zou daar aan toe willen voegen: tango’s volgend op een citaat van Keats. Een in elkaar stortend huwelijk wordt in woorden gevat. Woorden die poëtisch, filosofisch, fabelachtig, sprookjesgewijs aan elkaar worden geregen door een rode draad die schoonheid heet. Of waarheid. Echtheid.

Je leest dit best met mondjesmaat; om alles goed te laten doordringen en inwerken. Je leest het tot het einde en begint dan weer opnieuw. Omdat niet alles van de eerste keer duidelijk is maar dat hoeft ook niet. Dat is het echte leven, het huwelijk, ook niet. Je moet je er aan overgeven. Een spannend boek in feite. Geen ideaal geschenk voor Valentijn, of net weer wel.
… (mais)
 
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Els04 | 10 outras críticas | Jan 26, 2024 |
There are lot of beautiful moments in here, lots of bittersweet which is my weak spot. I wish I could have taken my time with it, but I have a pile of books from the library and had to rush a bit.

I think I was expecting/hoping for more of a story arc and was disappointed when it ended up being pretty slice-of-life. Still, very good.
 
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AdioRadley | 35 outras críticas | Jan 21, 2024 |

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Obras
39
Also by
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Membros
8,241
Popularidade
#2,935
Avaliação
4.1
Críticas
132
ISBN
175
Línguas
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