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Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera

By Anne , Carson

Book information

Publisher
Knopf
Year
2005
ISBN
1400043492, 9781400043491
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8163054 bytes)
Pages
245\266
Time added
2020-11-29 04:31:15
Poetry;Writing;Essays;Nonfiction;Plays;Philosophy;

Description

Simone Weil described “decreation” as “undoing the creature in us”–an undoing of self. In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson explores this idea with characteristic brilliance and a tantalizing range of reference, moving from Aphrodite to Antonioni, Demosthenes to Annie Dillard, Telemachos to Trotsky, and writing in forms as varied as opera libretto, screenplay, poem, oratorio, essay, shot list, and rapture. As she makes her way through these forms she slowly dismantles them, and in doing so seeks to move through the self, to its undoing.

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