Dekreacja. Wiersze, eseje, opera

Het boek is in het Engels. Hieronder volgt de beschrijving in het Engels. In Decreation, Anne Carson attempts to go beyond her own ‘self’ to give voice to what is inexpressible and radically other. Through a sequence of mutually illuminating works, in a collage of literary forms and styles—from poetry, through critical-philosophical essays and dialogues, to a poetic opera—she directs her gaze toward figures who, in Simone Weil’s words, ‘participated in the creation of the world by decree of their own selves.’ She writes, among others, about Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Porete, Sappho, and the films of Michelangelo Antonioni. Renata Lis observed: ‘The originality of Carson’s writing is as indisputable as it is paradoxical. The author of Decreation is as attached to tradition as a lecturer and translator of classical literature can be, and at the same time as innovative as a born experimentalist, who makes poetry express itself through dance. With a breezy disregard for the divisions of epic, lyric, and drama, two thousand years mean nothing to her. Carson speaks in all the languages of art, reviving the world of antiquity with her hot, utterly Romantic breath. In Carson’s work, Romanticism in the garb of classicism still seeks the Absolute, and moreover—she is a woman.”