Agamemnon.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 19162 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 328 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2015 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251802305 |
Classic bilingual collection. In the Oresteia – the only tragic trilogy to have come down to us – performed in Athens in 458 BC at the end of a political turmoil that established democracy, Aeschylus seizes the myth of the Atrides to, for the duration of the play, take the spectators out of current events, by mixing in a succession of violent dissonances what public discourses tried to separate: law, murders, intimacy of desires, filiation, trance, theoretical reflection. The first play, Agamemnon, where the victorious king of Troy returns home to be assassinated by his wife Clytemnestra, brings the crisis to its peak: no norm, no value can resist this initial violence, which cannot remain unpaid. The characters argue, without being able to agree or control their actions; The chorus of Argive nobles tries to rationalize, but sinks into aphasia and impotence. Cassandra, the captive brought back by the king and killed with him, the only figure who pursues no goal, can only bear witness to divine violence. Social and religious rules no longer fulfill their function and only serve to make damaged lives spectacular. Reconstruction, in the following plays, will be slow.
Classic bilingual collection. In the Oresteia – the only tragic trilogy to have come down to us – performed in Athens in 458 BC at the end of a political turmoil that established democracy, Aeschylus seizes the myth of the Atrides to, for the duration of the play, take the spectators out of current events, by mixing in a succession of violent dissonances what public discourses tried to separate: law, murders, intimacy of desires, filiation, trance, theoretical reflection. The first play, Agamemnon, where the victorious king of Troy returns home to be assassinated by his wife Clytemnestra, brings the crisis to its peak: no norm, no value can resist this initial violence, which cannot remain unpaid. The characters argue, without being able to agree or control their actions; The chorus of Argive nobles tries to rationalize, but sinks into aphasia and impotence. Cassandra, the captive brought back by the king and killed with him, the only figure who pursues no goal, can only bear witness to divine violence. Social and religious rules no longer fulfill their function and only serve to make damaged lives spectacular. Reconstruction, in the following plays, will be slow.