Decreation
4.990 kr.Anne Carson’ s first full-length publication in Britain, Glass and God introduces an assured and challenging new voice: vivid, laconic, precise. Her ‘Short Talks’ are about everything from Sylvia Plath to Franz Kafka, from waterproofing to walking backwards; the brilliant long poem ‘The Glass Essay’ deals with the end of a contemporary love affair, but is haunted by the Brontë sisters. Blending the modern and the classical, Anne Carson writes with an intensity and an integrity that is transfiguring.
Glass And God
4.390 kr.Anne Carson’ s first full-length publication in Britain, Glass and God introduces an assured and challenging new voice: vivid, laconic, precise. Her ‘Short Talks’ are about everything from Sylvia Plath to Franz Kafka, from waterproofing to walking backwards; the brilliant long poem ‘The Glass Essay’ deals with the end of a contemporary love affair, but is haunted by the Brontë sisters. Blending the modern and the classical, Anne Carson writes with an intensity and an integrity that is transfiguring.
Malarhjarta
4.190 kr.Yusuf er barn að aldri þegar auðugur kaupmaður af ströndinni tekur hann upp í skuldir foreldra hans. Hættuleg fegurð drengsins verður til þess að hann fylgir kaupmanninum í leiðangur inn í Tansaníu þar sem Yusuf kynnist töfrum fjallanna, víðáttu vatnanna, framandi siðum og hversu óvægið lífið getur verið. Merkilegt verk eftir Nóbelsverðlaunahafa.
Söguleg skáldsaga sem gerist í upphafi síðustu aldar eftir tansaníska rithöfundinn Abdulrazak Gurnah (f. 1948) sem hlaut Nóbelsverðlaunin í bókmenntum árið 2021. Paradís var tilnefnd til Booker-verðlaunanna og Whitbread-verðlaunanna.
Áður en hrafnarnir sækja okkur: Ljóðaúrval
5.190 kr.Knut Ødegård gaf út fyrstu ljóðabók sína árið 1967 og skipaði sér fljótt í hóp virtustu ljóðskálda Noregs. Hann hefur sent frá sér á fjórða tug frumsaminna bóka, ljóð, skáldverk og fræðirit, auk fjölda þýðinga, meðal annars úr íslensku.
Ljóðin í Áður en hrafnarnir sækja okkur koma úr ýmsum áttum en eiga það sameiginlegt að þar talar roskinn ljóðmælandi sem rýnir gjarna í eigið líf nú og þá en fjallar líka um náttúruna, heimsmálin og ástina. Gerður Kristný þýddi ljóðin úr norsku.
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Seint og um síðir
4.590 kr.Þessi bók geymir þrjár firnasterkar sögur sem eiga sameiginlegt að fjalla um samskipti kynjanna.
Í titilsögunni Seint og um síðir fylgjum við Cathal fara inn í helgina á meðan hann rifjar upp samskipti sín við unnustuna sem rann honum úr greipum. Í Langur og kvalafullur dauðdagi kemur rithöfundur í sumarhús Heinrichs Böll til að dvelja við skriftir, en ágengur aðkomumaður raskar ró hennar, og í sögunni Suðurskautið ákveður gift kona í helgarferð að sleppa fram af sér beislinu og upplifa hvernig það sé að sofa hjá öðrum manni.
Allar sögurnar skoða hvernig væntingar, tilætlunarsemi og undirliggjandi hætta á ofbeldi lita samskipti fólks.
The Beauty Of The Husband
4.690 kr.Since Glass and God, which was her first full-length collection published in Britain and which was nominated for the 1998 Forward Prize, Anne Carson has published a book a year to extraordinary critical acclaim. Her last two volumes, Autobiography of Red and Men in the Off Hours were both shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and she has received numerous North American awards, including the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship.
In her brilliant new book, she tells a single story. A long-time love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 29 ‘tangos’ of narrative verse, informed by the romanticism of Keats, the wisdom of the classical world and, most importatnly, by Carson’s own unique sensibility.
The unnamed narrator – sometimes ‘I’, sometimes ‘the wife’ – speaks of the man she calls only ‘the husband’, illuminating moments that are by turn sensual, erotic, painful and heartbreaking. The Beauty of the Husband is a work that explores these oldest of lyrical subjects – beauty, desire, love, betrayal – with freshness and devastating power.
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN‘S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
Red Doc>
4.390 kr.In a stunningly original mix of poetry, drama, and narrative, Anne Carson brings the red-winged Geryon from Autobiography of Red, now called ‘G’, into manhood, and through the complex labyrinths of the modern age. We join him as he travels with his friend and lover ‘Sad’ (short for Sad But Great), a war veteran, and with Ida, an artist, across a geography that ranges from plains of glacial ice to idyllic green pastures; from a psychiatric clinic to the sombre house where G’s mother must face her death. Haunted by Proust, juxtaposing the hunger for flight with the longing for family and home, this deeply powerful picaresque verse invites readers on an extraordinary journey of intellect, imagination, and soul.
