Norma Jeane Baker of Troy

AvAnne Carson

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane Baker was staged in the spring of 2019 at The Shed’s Griffin Theater in New York, starring actor Ben Whishaw and soprano Renée Fleming and directed by Katie Mitchell.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-03-24
Mått:109 x 178 x 8 mm
Vikt:68 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:64
Förlag:New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN:9780811229364

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Teater inom Kultur
Poesi inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Anne Carson was born in Canada. Her many books of poetry and translation include Antigonick, Autobiography of Red, The Beauty of the Husband, Glass, Irony and God, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy, Nox, and Wrong Norma (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry).

Recensioner i media

""This little grenade of a book is difficult to categorize. It's a performance piece and a treatise on war and beauty, reality and fakery, bombshell and bombing—with ancient Greek etymology lessons woven in to show us how the small and everyday becomes epic, and vice versa. Marilyn Monroe (neé Norma Jeane Baker) is fused here with Helen of Troy, and elements of both milieus—Homer and Hollywood—populate the narrative. It's easy to imagine the blunt beauty of Carson's language being spoken and sung on stage.""