{"product_id":"the-fourth-dimension-paperback","title":"The Fourth Dimension - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYannis Ritsos\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePeter Green\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eBeverly Bardsley\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the dramatic monologues that make up \u003ci\u003eThe Fourth Dimension\u003c\/i\u003e--especially those based on the grim history of Mycenae and its royal protagonists--the celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos presents a timeless poetic paradigm of the condition of Greece, past and present. The volume also contains a group of modern narratives, including the famous, and much-anthologized, \"Moonlight Sonata.\" Ritsos, rightly, regarded the \u003ci\u003eThe Fourth Dimension\u003c\/i\u003e as his finest achievement. It is now presented to English- speaking readers for the first time in its entirety. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From \"Philoctetes\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e All the speeches of great men, about the dead and about heroes.\u003cbr\u003e Astonishing, awesome words, pursued us even in our sleep, \u003cbr\u003eslipping beneath closed doors, from the banqueting hall\u003cbr\u003ewhere glasses and voices sparkled, and the veil\u003cbr\u003eof an unseen dancer rippled silently\u003cbr\u003elike a diaphanous, whirling wall\u003cbr\u003ebetween life and death. This throbbing\u003cbr\u003eour childhood nights, lightening the shadows of shields\u003cbr\u003eetched on white walls by slow moonlight.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Green\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Classics at the University of Texas in Austin. The author of numerous scholarly works, he has also written several volumes of historical fiction, including \u003ci\u003eThe Laughter of Aphrodite\u003c\/i\u003e (Murray\/World; paperback forthcoming from University of California Press). \u003cb\u003eBeverly Bardsley\u003c\/b\u003e, a free-lance translator, lives in Austin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 348\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 x 9.22 x 6.13 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 06, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42723372990527,"sku":"9780691024653","price":80.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/30db96b6d59f150536ce77e401e7bd8b.webp?v=1765098944","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/the-fourth-dimension-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}