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Bezig met laden... The Laughter of Aphrodite (1993)door Peter Green
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I applaud the author for taking what little we know of Sappho's life--fragments of history and snippets of Sappho's poetry itself--and fashioning something plausible. Most of it is from the writer's imagination but hung on a few pegs of fact. Excerpts from Sappho's poetry are cleverly incorporated into the text as part of Sappho's thoughts. The novel was well written and intense [but not crass]. I could see small details in front of my eyes: those of Sappho's study, her daughter's bedroom, physical descriptions of the well fleshed-out characters. The Chronology and the list of characters were very useful and I kept referring to them. ( ) La vida de Safo transcurrió durante uno de los períodos más apasionantes de la historia de Grecia. Una época de cambios fundamentales, de agitación política y social, que Safo rememora en esta extraordinaria novela rebosante de fuerza, colorido y sensualidad. Safo no es solamente la gran poetisa de la antigüedad clásica, ensalzadora del amor homosexual y de la libertad creadora. Es, ante todo, una mujer única por su valentía y espontaneidad, y sin duda una de las más interesantes del mundo antiguo. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Best-selling classicist Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho in this beautifully conceived, sharply detailed work of historical imagination. We meet Sappho at the age of fifty, when she is shaken by her fatal and final love affair with Phaon. She narrates her own story from the vantage point of self-questioning middle age, and her candid meditations make intimate, engrossing reading. Only fragments of Sappho's poetry survive. In imagining Sappho's life Green found his task "rather like that of an archaeologist reassembling some amphora from hundreds of shards--of which more than half are missing." Yet, in his synthesis of historical evidence and ebullient invention, Green produces a seamless, moving, and persuasive portrait. He recreates Sappho's life by interweaving her surviving poetry into the narrative, not as quotations, but as her own imagined speeches and thoughts. Sappho's life spanned one of the most exciting periods in Greek history. Green's novel, full of details about daily life on ancient Lesbos, draws the reader into the political and social climate of her world: the civil strife accompanying the transition from aristocracy to mercantilism, the household relations between slave and aristocrat, the details of sea travel in the Aegean. Green wrote the novel while living on Lesbos, and his graceful rendering of the landscape, the rhythms of the seasons, and the varied flora of Sappho's island pervades the narrative. Sappho's poetry reveals a direct, spontaneous woman who eschewed artifice and embellishment. Green's extraordinary talent captures those qualities and brings this woman of unflinching honesty very much to life. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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