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作者	Herbert, Zbigniew
出版社	HarperCollins e-books
ISBN	9780062014306
出版时间	2010-08-01
字数	142.4万
分类	进口书,外文原版书,小说

读书简介

Polish poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert easily stands beside Nobel Prize laureates Milosz and Szymborska as part of a remarkable literary tradition. Though Herbert is very much an Eastern European writer, the urgency, vitality, and relevance of his work extend far beyond the borders of his particular region and his particular time. His fascination with other subjects from painting to all things Dutch enriched the scope and depth of his poetry, and made for compelling explorations in his essays and short prose pieces.The first collected English edition of his prose work, this outstanding volume consists of four books Labryinth on the Sea, Still Life with a Bridle, King of the Ants, and Barbarian in the Garden. Brilliant and erudite, dazzling and witty, these essays survey the geography of humanity, its achievements and its foibles. From Western civilization's past, as witnessed through the Greek and Roman landscape, to musings on the artistic that celebrate the author's discriminating eye, poetic sensibility, and gift for irony, humor, and the absurd; from a sage retelling of myths and tales that became twentieth-century philosophical parables of human behavior to thoughts on art, culture, and history inspired by journeys in France, Italy, and the Netherlands, Collected Prose is a rich compendium that celebrates the mastery and wisdom of a remarkable artist.

目录

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Barbarian in the Garden

Lascaux

Among the Dorians

Arles

Orvieto’s Duomo

Siena

A Stone from the Cathedral

Albigensians, Inquisitors, and Troubadours

Defense of the Templars

Piero della Francesca

Memories of Valois

Still Life with a Bridle

Essays

Delta

The Price of Art

The Bitter Smell of Tulips

Gerard Terborch

Still Life with a Bridle

The Nonheroic Subject

Apocryphas

The Mercy of the Executioner

The Captain

Long Gerrit

Portrait in a Black Frame

The Hell of Insects

Perpetuum Mobile

Home

Spinoza’s Bed

Letter

Epilogue

The King of the Ants

II

H.E.O.

Antaeus

The Infernal Dog

Triptolemos

The king of the Ants

This Horrible Thersites

Cleomedes

Narcissus

Endymion

The Olympian General

Securitas

Atlas

Prometheus

Old Prometheus

Arachne

The History of the Minotaur

Achilles. Penthesilea

Hecuba

Phya

Sacrifice

III

IV

Anti-Epic

The Garden of the Hesperides

Poseidon’s Retinue

Pegasus

Dragon

Giants

Introduction to “Atlas”

Annex (Variants)

Narcissus

Sacrifice—Dionysus

Labyrinth on the Sea

Labyrinth on the Sea

Attempt at a Description of the Greek Landscape

Animula

Acropolis

The Samos Affair

On the Etruscans

A Latin Lesson

Short Prose (1948–1998)

Poetry in a Vacuum?

Shield us from the Dark Word…

Character Sketches

Hamlet on the Border of Silence

Request

Leonardo’s Disquiet

Guinea Pig, or On the Power of Reason

A Bitter Rose Petal

Van Gogh’s Sad Popularity

Why the Classics

To Describe Reality

Monsieur Montaigne’s Voyage to Italy

The Poet and the Present

Conversation on Writing Poetry

The Presence of History

Quality and Nullity in Mass Culture

Voice

Mirror

The Gordian Knot

Pact

Passo Romano

Sinope

David

Altichiero

For the road

Thomas

Evil

A Word for the Poetry Evening at the National Theater, May 25, 1998

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Other Books by Zbigniew Herbert

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher