Tyrtaeus: A Tragedy
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Tyrtaeus: A Tragedy by Lajos Walder
Drama. Translated from the Hungarian by Agnes Walder. Written in the early 1940s under the Nazi reign of terror and set in ancient Sparta during the Second Messenean War in the 7th century BCE, TYRTAEUS dramatizes contemporary ethical and political concerns the brutality of totalitarianism, the precariousness of democracy and human rights, and the sociopolitical role of poetry and art more generally through the prism of Greek elegiac poet Tyrtaeus' involvement in the conflict: first as a prisoner of war and, subsequently, as a newly-minted Spartan general who as decreed by the Delphic Oracle is, ironically, destined to lead Sparta to victory. A perennial play that speaks to all ages.
Walder, Lajos: - Lajos Walder is considered to be one of the most significant modern Hungarian poets. Born in Budapest in 1913, he died in May, 1945, shortly after walking through the opened gates of the liberated concentration camp of Gunskirchen. Under the pseudonym Vü¾Œ–”¼ndor--meaning wanderer--he published two volumes of poetry during his short life: Heads or Tails (1933) and Group Portrait (1938). His substantial poetic legacy of unpublished manuscripts was saved from the Nazis by his family, who emigrated to Australia in 1957, and is now appearing for the first time in its entirety in English translation.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781935830368 |
| ISBN 10 | 1935830368 |
| Titel | Tyrtaeus: A Tragedy |
| Autor | Lajos Walder |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc. |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2017-02-10 |
| Seitenanzahl | 120 |
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