Unique among his works, Oscar Wilde's play "Salome" (1893) was
written originally in French. Joseph Donohue's new translation of
the horrific New Testament story has recast Wilde's shockingly
radical drama in the natural idiomatic language of our own day.
Presenting a colloquial and spare American English version of
Wilde's consciously stylized French, Donohue's approach gives full
value to the Irish author's dark ruminations on evil and perversity
in a world on the brink of a new, unsettling Christian
dispensation.
The play was first translated into English in 1894 by Wilde's
young friend Lord Alfred Douglas, but Wilde was far from pleased
with the outcome. And yet Douglas's stilted, inaccurate version has
somehow retained a long-standing place on the stage and in the
study. Donohue's lucid vernacular transformation of Douglas's safe,
thee-and-thou faux-biblical language has the quality of a startling
modern-dress remounting of an overly familiar classic play. This
new "Salome" is calculated to bring both readers and playgoers into
close, disturbing confrontation with one of the most erotic and
bloodiest sequences of testamentary lore.
Brilliantly complementing Donohue's unprecedented approach is a
set of engravings by a master illustrator of our time. Barry Moser
is an artist who speaks the blunt yet fluent language of
present-day communication through the penetrating gestural
vocabulary of the graphic arts. The resulting combination of words
and images directly engages with Wilde's characters and their
story, setting a bold new standard for the melding of literary and
pictorial excellence. At the same time, it leads readers and
audiences alike to rediscover perennially significant themes--of
love, death, power, and individuality.
A signed and numbered limited edition is available for
$100.00.
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