Salvador Espriu

Obres completes, edició crítica: Antígona

Ariadne in the grotesque labyrinth

Considering how much poetry the great Catalan writer Salvador Espriu wrote, a representative selection is a tall order for any translator. Louis Rodrigues has limited his choice to a hundred poems, in order to highlight some of the more notable and original features -- features which challenge the ingenuity of the translator. Yet the conceptual rigour and precision of the ideas expressed and the haunting rhythms which are captured here are more than a shadow of the original. Espriu's mission was to make the Catalan language sing and survive the bleak years when Franco insisted that a unified Spain required a single tongue and forbade the use of the other national languages. The vigour -- intellectual and lyrical -- of Espriu's poems was and remains an inspiration and a consolation to all Catalan speakers.

John Berger

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Gérard Chaliand

John Reed

Victor Serge

Yannis Ritsos

Roque Dalton

Violeta Parra

Nâzim Hikmet

Taos Amrouche

Eric Didier

Djamal Almansour Haddad

Mehmet Hikmet

Nacer Khemir

Du Hûu Quynh

R. Fernandez Retamar

Nicole-Édith Thévenin

Edmond Thomas

Poètes et textes de la terre entière, réunis par Fanchita Gonzales Batlle

Voix

Aquest volum reuneix tres obres de Salvador Espriu, centrades en dues figures mítiques gregues que la tradició occidental sempre ha tingut presents: Antígona i Fedra. Com explica Carles Miralles en el pròleg que ha escrit expressament per a aquesta edició, en la seva Antígona (escrita el 1939 i reescrita entre 1963 i 1964), Espriu replanteja la tragèdia homònima de Sòfocles: "La mítica guerra civil tebana s'hi convertia en rerefons de la guerra civil espanyola, des del punt de vista de Catalunya ja perduda tant políticament com culturalment". El 1937, Espriu s'havia enfrontat per primera vegada al mite de Fedra, l'esposa del rei d'Atenes enamorada del seu fillastre Hipòlit, en una esplèndida peça narrativa; quaranta anys més tard, a petició de l'actriu Núria Espert, va escriure l'obra dramàtica Una altra Fedra, si us plau, en què, valent-se del recurs del teatre dins el teatre, dóna una visió distanciada i irònica del mite.

Antígona, Fedra i Una altra Fedra si us plau

Una altra Fedra, si us plau

Magda Bogin

Poems, in the original Catalan as well as English translation, deal with death, loneliness, memory, language, and politics

Selected Poems of Salvador Espriu

Lluís Ferran de Pol

Albert Jané

Abans de l'alba

One of the defining texts of twentieth-century Catalan fiction, written by one of its most innovative and cherished writers, Salvador Espriu's Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth is a collection of thirty-four short stories in which the twists and turns of action, character, and place are as winding and sumptuous as the legendary maze of its title. Originally published in 1935 in the midst of great countrywide political and social upheaval, these stories are a mirror, a grotesque mirror, held up to Catalan and Spanish society. Infused with a deep sense of mythic power, blending social realism with lush modernist experiment, Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth is a triumph of style. Perhaps best known for his poetry, Espriu's rich lyricism and highly evocative use of the Catalan language are here brought to life in the poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips's remarkable English language translation of a classic of world literature.

Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth

Primera història d'Esther ; Antígona

Laia

Obres completes

La Piel de Toro [texto Biligue].

La Pell de Brav

La pell de brau has been called the most important book to appear in Spain in the 1960s. Grappling with themes of national, racial, and cultural identity, its frankness exhilarated and inspired the younger generation of artists to speak out on social and political issues. The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature said of Burton Raffel's translation: "He has created an Espriu equally valid in English, a monument to a Catalan writer of world stature."

La Pell de Brau

Primera historia d'Esther

Poems

Lord of the Shadow

Ariadna al laberint grotesc

Antígona, escrita el 1939 i publicada el 1955, és el mite clàssic que permet a l'autor de dur a terme l'anàlisi sintètica, però intensa, de la lluita fratricida entre les dues Espanyes històricament enfrontades per la Guerra Civil. Antígona es pot interpretar des de diferents punts de vista, perquè el que Espriu hi ha intentat és donar-nos les «raons dels personatges», les motivacions i les justificacions per les quals cada bàndol actua. I dins aquest context, una víctima innocent que només es regeix per l'amor: Antígona.L'EDICIÓ DIGITAL D'AQUEST LLIBRE NO INCLOU L'ESTUDI PRELIMINAR I LES PROPOSTES DE TREBALL.

Estudi preliminar, propostes de treball i comentaris de text a cura d ́Isabel Gra

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