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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | Simonides; Paul Celan; Paul Celan |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Anne Carson |
ISBN: | 0691091757 9780691091754 |
OCLC Number: | 48783874 |
Notes: | Originally published: 1999. |
Description: | 1 volume |
Contents: | Note on Method -- Prologue -- False Sail -- Vienation -- Visibles Invisibles -- Epitaphs -- Negation -- Epilogue -- All Candled Things -- Bibliography -- Index |
Series Title: | Martin classical lectures. |
Responsibility: | Anne Carson. |
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"Erudite and entertaining, effortlessly able to play across a range of associations, the book traces a number of similarities in artistic approach between two writers who would seem, on the face of it, to have inhabited very different worlds ... Economy of the Unlost is a beguiling piece of work, both scholarly and persuasive."--Elizabeth Lowry, London Review of Books "This is one of those rewarding, original, rigorously attentive books that only Anne Carson could have written. At its core is an idea-the way the overlapping senses of 'economy' play out in language and in monetary history-that only this brilliant poet/classicist could have come up with. Economy of the Unlost is a strange book, bringing together as it does Simonides and Paul Celan; but its strangeness is one of its great virtues, for startling insights spring uncannily off every page."--Wendy Lesser, Editor, The Threepenny Review "[A] magnificent and lovely essay... I never wanted [the] book to end. .. ."--Stanley Corngold, Modernism/Modernity "[Carson] convincingly draws out the fraternity of tone and inclination in two poets far removed in time, experience, and language, a significant accomplishment. It is...difficult to do full justice to her book--rich, delicate, and complex... An act of grace."--Danielle Allen, Chicago Review Read more...

