num_pages: 180
description: Antigonick is a translation of Sophokle's Antigone only in the loosest sense  with significant changes and metatextual additions to the original an extra character and illustrations with interpretations left open to the reader it could easily be considered a different work altogether.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.Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho Simonides Aiskhylos Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick is her first attempt at making translation into a combined visual and textual experience: it will provoke poetry readers classical scholars theatre people and comic-book aficionados.
language: English
title: Antigonick
publisher: New Directions