El. knyga: Trojan Women: A Comic

"A loose, peculiar and deeply affecting adaptation of the antiwar tragedy by Euripides. " -- Hillary Chute - The New York Times Best Graphic Novels of 2021 "Rosanna Brunos Slanted Life is so hysterical, you may find yourself with a case of the vapors." -- Alison Bechdel, author of Fun House "Brunos monochromatic drawings depict characters as animals and everyday objects, accompanied by a weary chorus of dogs and cows. This gives phantasmagoric shape to Carsons characteristically uncategorizable translation. Carson preserves some of the ancient Greek texts inscrutability, but also imbues it with contemporary immediacy: Poseidon enters making allusions to James Baldwin, and Hekabe, brooding about the role of Helen in the citys downfall, calls her the 'why and fucking wherefore of it all.'" -- New Yorker "Set in post-war Troy, this wrenching comics-poetry update of Euripides tragic play by poet Carson and artist Bruno embodies feminine narratives with wry lyricism. Brunos black-and-white illustrations literalize poetic metaphors to whimsical effect. Yet the cleverness and agility of this graphic work amplify its tragedies.... Even the infamous Helen, a shape-shifter who appears as a silver fox and a mirror, must defend her life to her husband, the king Menelaos, after Hekabe wants her 'sentenced to death out of her own mouth' for her apparent complicity in the downfall of Troy.... Accompanied by a chorus of cows and dogs, Hekabe mourns the death of a final heir (drawn as a sapling) and says, 'We cant go on/ we go on.' Such is the story of war and genocide throughout history, and in Carson and Brunos expert hands, it strikes as powerfully contemporary." -- Publishers Weekly (starred) "In her classical translations, Carson has pursued what T. S. Eliot called "acontinuous parallel between contemporaneity and antiquity."" -- Will Harrison - BOMB "What do you get when you cross Euripides classic tragedy, the artistic stylings of Rosanna Bruno, and the poetic touch of Anne Carson? This book! Heres what we know: Troy has been ravaged. Everyone is depicted as an animal (except Kassandra, who is another planet, which actually makes complete sense when you think about it). Need I say more?" -- Lithub "Anne Carson is a daring, learned, unsettling writer." -- Susan Sontag "Brunos illustration works wonderfully with Carsons text, making [ for] a beautiful, affecting translation." -- Womens Review of Books "Carson and Bruno have risen to an unusual challenge. Their mediums conventions could have flattened distinctive literary qualities, but their book instead refocuses our attention on Euripides styles. The format highlights this plays outstanding quality, praised by Sidney as sweet violence. That phrase was borrowed by Terry Eagleton to entitle his own book on the tragic (2002), in which he said that tragedy can only survive as a twenty-first-century art form if it is metaphysically open, aesthetically beautiful and unflinching in its depiction of suffering. All three criteria are fulfilled by this innovative version of Trojan Women." -- Edith Hall - Times Literary Supplement "Even at its best, the poetic mainstream we call the lyric tradition can run the risk of appearing po-faced. So its a joy to come across a mistress of the art taking rumbustious pleasure in revisiting the matter of poetry itself. Anne Carsons new version of Euripides The Trojan Women, with artist and cartoonist Rosanna Bruno, is resolutely subtitled A Comic; and a graphic novel is exactly what it is. But of course the words are Carsonssimultaneously straight-talking and experimental." -- Fiona Sampson - The Guardian "In their new collaborative comic-book adaptation of Euripides The Trojan Women, poet and classicist Anne Carson and artist Rosanna Bruno lean into the irrationality, the volatility of translation. Bizarre, haunting, and hallucinatory illustrations by Bruno render the tragedys characters as animals (dogs, cats, crows, cows) and inanimate objects (a cracked poplar tree, some sort of gearbox, clutch or coupling mechanism). What results is a gnarly, perfectly inscrutable dreamscape of Euripides tragedy." -- Lily Houston Smith - Vol. 1 Brooklyn "Anne Carson teamed up with Rosanna Bruno for this irreverent rendering of Euripides's tragedy following the fates of the titular women here represented as animals in the wake of the sack of Troy." -- Globe and Mail "A great tragedy as well as an odd and terrific piece of work. Instead of actors on a stage, we have Brunos dogs and cows (the captive Trojan women), a surging sea (Poseidon), a pair of overalls (Athena), a poplar and sapling (Hektors wife Andromache and their son Astyanax), Helen alternately as a silver fox and a hand mirror, and Menelaos as some sort of gearbox clutch or coupling mechanism. I wouldnt have believed these images would work if I hadnt seen them interacting with Carsons swift, bold communication of Euripidess words and spirit. For me, Brunos strange, crude, and somehow completely evocative images do what acting cant." -- Bob Blaisdell - Los Angeles Review of Books "By abandoning Euripides original words and syntax, and indeed the task of literary translation itself, Carson lays bare the central emotion of the women in the play and forces us to feel in our very nerve endings what it is like to be abandoned." -- Signorelli-Pappas - World Literature Today