| The Fourth Dimension Contributor(s): Ritsos, Yannis (Author), Green, Peter (Translator), Bardsley, Beverly (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0691024650 ISBN-13: 9780691024653 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $39.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1993 Annotation: In the dramatic monologues that make up "The Fourth Dimension"--especially those based on the grim history of Mycenae and its royal protagonists--the celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos presents a timeless poetic paradigm of the condition of Greece, past and present. The volume also contains a group of modern narratives, including the famous, and much-anthologized, "Moonlight Sonata." Ritsos, rightly, regarded the "The Fourth Dimension" as his finest achievement. It is now presented to English- speaking readers for the first time in its entirety. From "Philoctetes" All the speeches of great men, about the dead and about heroes. Astonishing, awesome words, pursued us even in our sleep, slipping beneath closed doors, from the banqueting hallwhere glasses and voices sparkled, and the veilof an unseen dancer rippled silentlylike a diaphanous, whirling wallbetween life and death. This throbbingour childhood nights, lightening the shadows of shieldsetched on white walls by slow moonlight. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General - Literary Criticism | European - General |
| Dewey: 889.132 |
| LCCN: 92027141 |
| Series: Princeton Modern Greek Studies (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.13" W x 9.22" (1.00 lbs) 348 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the dramatic monologues that make up The Fourth Dimension--especially those based on the grim history of Mycenae and its royal protagonists--the celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos presents a timeless poetic paradigm of the condition of Greece, past and present. The volume also contains a group of modern narratives, including the famous, and much-anthologized, Moonlight Sonata. Ritsos, rightly, regarded the The Fourth Dimension as his finest achievement. It is now presented to English- speaking readers for the first time in its entirety. From Philoctetes All the speeches of great men, about the dead and about heroes.Astonishing, awesome words, pursued us even in our sleep, slipping beneath closed doors, from the banqueting hall where glasses and voices sparkled, and the veil of an unseen dancer rippled silently like a diaphanous, whirling wall between life and death. This throbbing our childhood nights, lightening the shadows of shields etched on white walls by slow moonlight. |
