Anne Carson

TLS has a review of Anne Carson’s translation of the Antigone, but I can’t get past the first two lines: As Magritte might say: “This is not a book”. Rather, perhaps, an objet trouvé, a postmodern or Dada artefact, a happening somewhere to the far north (Manitoba?) of Sophocles’ resplendent, morally complex original. Maybe y’all…

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