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Confessions
Gabriele Tinti; Illustrated by Andres Serrano
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Ruins (Paperback)
Gabriele Tinti; Translated by David Graham; Foreword by Nigel Spivey; Commentary by Kenneth Lapatin, Andrew Stewart, …
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Last Words (Paperback)
Gabriele Tinti
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R379
R293
Discovery Miles 2 930
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All Over (Paperback)
Gabriele Tinti; Translated by Nicholas Benson
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Discovery Miles 1 760
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All over is a collection of epic songs, of epinician odes for our
day. The heroes praised are boxers, men the author identifies as
the last able to truly astound, to induce awe. These epinician odes
on Pindaric models are transformed in the making. What they sing
about is not victory but defeat. The hero, the boxer, is deprived
the possibility of attaining true "victory" through the gods'
obliging and favorable presence - a limitation that never pertained
in antiquity. This is a fragile hero. An all-too human human. He is
a "simple" boxer. Nothing but a man. The epinician odes, therefore,
end up being direct, and matter-of-fact, in their style and
content. They wind up as epigraphs, tragedies in verse form that
narrate the real exploits of workday heroes, even if the resulting
events are exceptional, moving us to weep, and to feel great
admiration and compassion.
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