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.
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ISBN:9780691024653
ISBN:9780691069401
ISBN:0691069409
ISBN:0691024650
ISBN:9781400884407
ISBN:1400884403
Physical Description:1 online resource. remote
Publisher:Princeton University Press, 2016.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Window -- Winter Clarity -- Chronicle -- Moonlight Sonata -- Agamemnon -- Orestes -- The Dead House -- The Return of Iphigenia -- Under the Shadow of the Mountain -- Chrysothemis -- Persephone -- Ismene -- Ajax -- Philoctetes -- Helen -- Phaedra -- When the Stranger Comes -- NOTES TO THE POEMS
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