
The Fourth Dimension
The Fourth Dimension
Yannis Ritsos(Author)
Princeton University Press
Published on 6. June 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
348 pages
978-0-691-02465-3 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
565 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-02465-3 (9780691024653)
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Persons
Peter Green is Professor of Classics at the University of Texas in Austin. The author of numerous scholarly works, he has also written several volumes of historical fiction, including The Laughter of Aphrodite (Murray/World; paperback forthcoming from University of California Press). Beverly Bardsley, a free-lance translator, lives in Austin.
Content
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Window3Winter Clarity15Chronicle25Moonlight Sonata37Agamemnon47Orestes63The Dead House83The Return of Iphigenia103Under the Shadow of the Mountain123Chrysothemis147Persephone175Ismene191Ajax215Philoctetes229Helen251Phaedra273When the Stranger Comes295Notes to the Poems313