David Grene Ordre des livres (chronologique)

A fiercely independent thinker, colorful storyteller, and spirited teacher, David Grene devoted his life to two things: farming, which he began as a boy in Ireland and continued into old age; and classics, which he taught for several decades that culminated in his translating and editing, with Richmond Lattimore, of The Complete Greek Tragedies . In this charming memoir, which he wrote during the years leading up to his death in 2002 at the age of eighty-nine, Grene weaves together these interests to tell a quirky and absorbing story of the sometimes turbulent and always interesting life he split between the University of Chicago—where he helped found the Committee on Social Thought—and the farm he kept back in Ireland. Charting the path that took him from Europe to Chicago in 1937, and encompassing his sixty-five-year career at the university, Grene’s book draws readers into the heady and invigorating climate of his time there. And it is elegantly balanced with reflections stemming from his work on the farm where he hunted, plowed and regularly traveled on horseback to bring his cows home for milking. Grene’s form and humor are quite his own, and his brilliant storytelling will enthrall anyone interested in the classics, rural Ireland, or twentieth-century intellectual history, especially as it pertains to the University of Chicago.

Antigone est la tragédie grecque la plus célèbre, la plus achevée, et c'est la pièce qui représente le tragique de la condition humaine de la façon la plus saisissante. Du siècle de Périclès à celui de Néron, de Robert Garnier (1580) à Jean Anouilh (1944) et à Bertolt Brecht (1948), Antigone est restée vivante, actuelle, à travers les reprises et les adaptations. Cette édition commentée de la pièce originale tente de faire comprendre un succès si extraordinaire et de l'élargir au public contemporain. L'introduction analyse la nature de la tragédie grecque classique et situe la pièce de Sophocle dans cet ensemble de chefs-d'œuvre fondateurs. Le texte, dans la traduction du grand helléniste Paul Mazon, reçoit une présentation et une annotation nouvelles destinées à faire sentir la construction et les harmoniques de l'œuvre. Le commentaire est ensuite consacré à l'étude d'Antigone et de sa réception dans la littérature et la pensée occidentales.