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The Ingenious Language Andrea Marcolongo

The Ingenious Language By Andrea Marcolongo

The Ingenious Language by Andrea Marcolongo


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Summary

It may well be Greek to you, but in Marcolongo's international bestselling book you'll discover nine reasons to be happy it is.

The Ingenious Language Summary

The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek by Andrea Marcolongo

It is to the Greeks that we turn when we are sick of the vagueness, of the confusion, of our own age.-Virginia Woolf

Discover a new passion for a very old language, a language that can express what can't be said in any other, and thrillingly relevant to our lives today. A language that rewards desire by giving its own modal verb; bequeaths lovers a special case beyond singular and plural; prioritises mindfulness and dynamic presence through its very own grammar. A language that can transform our relationship to time and to those around us.

A love song to the language of the greatest poets, philosophers, adventurers, lovers, and generals that ever lived. In Marcolongo's words: Greek has been the longest and most beautiful romance of my life. Whether or not readers are familiar with ancient Greek, they will find Marcolongo's boundless enthusiasm for her subject utterly infectious.

The Ingenious Language Reviews

A delightfully spirited yet succinct apologia for the magnificent and elegant ancient Greek language. * The Guardian *

Joyous, superb and exuberant, The Ingenious Language by Andrea Marcolongo is an irrepressibly compelling, playfully erudite and deliciously charming celebration of Greek. Everyone should read it.

-- Simon Sebag Montefiore

About Andrea Marcolongo

Andrea Marcolongo is an Italian journalist, writers, Classics scholar, and former speech writer for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. The Ingenious Language was a bestseller in Italy and in many of the other dozen countries in which it has thus far been published. She is also the author of The Heroic Measure. Will Schutt is the author of Westerly, winner of the 2012 Yale Series of Younger Poets award. His poems and translations have appeared in Agni, Narrative, The New Republic, and The Southern Review. For his translations of poems by Edoardo Sanguineti he received grants from the NEA and PEN/ America. He lives in Baltimore.

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GOR010234989
9781787701830
1787701832
The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek by Andrea Marcolongo
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
20191003
176
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