All Day Permanent Red: An Account of the First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad
Автор:Christopher Logue Год: 2003 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 64 ISBN: 0374102953 Book Description The first clash of the armies in Logue’s “Heroic . . . brilliant” version of Homer’s Iliad (The New York Times Book Review) Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly, Emptying her blood-red mouth—set in her ice-white face— Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked: “Kill! Kill for me! Better to die than live without killing!” Who says prayer does no good? Christopher Logue’s work in progress, his Iliad, has been called “the best translation of Homer since Pope’s” (The New York Review of Books). Here in All Day Permanent Red is doomed Hector, the lion, “slam-scattering the herd” at the height of his powers. Here is the Greek army rising with a sound like a “sky-wide Venetian blind.” Here is an arrow’s tunnel, “the width ofa lipstick,” through a neck. Like Homer himself, Logue is quick to mix the...
