Antigonick - Winner of the Criticos Prize

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Nick comes to bear many meanings, such as a broken off piece of statue or the phrase ‘ nick of time,’ and Carson observes the story of Antigone as one very much about timing. For me, that points to a visual illiteracy that is wildly at odds with the reviewers' sometimes acute observations about Sophocles, tragedy, translation, theater, Brecht, and Hegel. Her testament that “I am born for love not hatred” is a response to his “Enemy is always enemy, alive or dead. For two decades her work has moved–phrase by phrase, line by line, project by improbable project–in directions that a human brain would never naturally move.

He does not seem to hold himself fully accountable for the vast devastation his actions have unleashed, the human cost of his unjust wield of power. With text blocks hand-inked on the page by Anne Carson and her collaborator Robert Currie, Antigonick features translucent vellum pages with stunning drawings by Bianca Stone that overlay the text.Lo que me atrajo de esta reescritura del mito fue precisamente eso: una posibilidad, una mirada nueva, una obra nueva.

And like in Sophocles’’ work, Antigone stands still like a heroin – she is cognizant, she knows what her fate is, she makes a decision perfectly recognizing the consequences, she picks family, she picks justice, she fights for what she thinks it’s right. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry; Economy of the Unlost; Autobiography of Red, shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the T.

Even the opening piece that introduces 'the task of the translator of Antigonick' contains lines and passages that I highlighted, phrases that seemed so new in the world. Some aspects of her minimalism were interesting, but, at least to me, the whole project felt like a forced attempt at a pseudo-avantgarde reinterpretation. For readers of Nox, in which Carson describes poem 101 as "a room I can never leave", there is something quietly horrific about Carson's choice of Antigone for a sequel – another difficult text about mourning a brother, in which the heroine is condemned to a living death in a sealed cave. As part of her monologue, Eurydike asks ‘what is a nick’ giving the chance of interactions with the mute character. Following one of Carson’s most personal and emotional works, Nox, which is a recreation of her scrapbook dealing with the death of her brother, Carson released Antigonick which revisits the grief over the death of a brother.