Apres Proust
Can it be ten years now that we all read Proust as a summer self-help project?
Does anyone anymore?
It's already late this summer, I know, but I've finally found a project: Greek drama—all the tragedies that have survived (34) and I don't know how many of the comedies (15) will hold my interest.
So far I've done Aeschylus (7).
The Ted Hughes minimalist Oresteia is tremendous, but The Persians knocked me out: told from their point of view, set in their hometown; a messenger brings news about the terrible defeat at Salamis...
What an extraordinary leap of the imagination.
Actually, I'm now into Sophocles. I'll just mention that Ajax strikes me as an extraordinary study of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Does anyone anymore?
It's already late this summer, I know, but I've finally found a project: Greek drama—all the tragedies that have survived (34) and I don't know how many of the comedies (15) will hold my interest.
So far I've done Aeschylus (7).
The Ted Hughes minimalist Oresteia is tremendous, but The Persians knocked me out: told from their point of view, set in their hometown; a messenger brings news about the terrible defeat at Salamis...
What an extraordinary leap of the imagination.
Actually, I'm now into Sophocles. I'll just mention that Ajax strikes me as an extraordinary study of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
posted by Howard Junker at 7:53 AM
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