Idylls.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 12594 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 304 p. paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2009 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251800042 |
Classic bilingual collection. Despite, or rather because of, the "realistic illusion" that the Idylls arouse, nothing is more difficult to grasp, in their apparent obviousness, than Theocritus and his poetic universe, especially since these "light bubbles of imagination that are dappled with infinite literary reminiscences, masterpieces in which art and nature merge into a unique blend, have in turn been taken up and reinterpreted by the entire pastoral tradition. In an attempt to shed light on the Greek poet's own aesthetic as well as the subsequent metamorphoses of a genre then in its infancy, this volume brings together the first eleven Idylls transmitted in the Theocritean corpus, those that inspired Virgil to construct his own world of the Eclogues.
Classic bilingual collection. Despite, or rather because of, the "realistic illusion" that the Idylls arouse, nothing is more difficult to grasp, in their apparent obviousness, than Theocritus and his poetic universe, especially since these "light bubbles of imagination that are dappled with infinite literary reminiscences, masterpieces in which art and nature merge into a unique blend, have in turn been taken up and reinterpreted by the entire pastoral tradition. In an attempt to shed light on the Greek poet's own aesthetic as well as the subsequent metamorphoses of a genre then in its infancy, this volume brings together the first eleven Idylls transmitted in the Theocritean corpus, those that inspired Virgil to construct his own world of the Eclogues.