Confessions (eBook)

A New Translation

Augustine (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
368 Seiten
Liveright (Verlag)
978-0-87140-759-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This long-awaited translation of Confessions, which Stephen Greenblatt describes as central to the legacy of Adam and Eve, enlivens the beguiling world of late antiquity.No modern, well-versed literature lover can call her education complete without having read Augustines Confessions. One of the most original works of world literature, it is the first autobiography ever written, influencing writers from Montaigne to Rousseau, Virginia Woolf to Gertrude Steinand most recently informing Stephen Greenblatts provocative thesis about one of our foundational mythologies in The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve. It is here that we learn how one of the greatest saints in Christendom overcame a wild and reckless past, complete with a rambunctious posse of friends, an overly doting mother, and an affair that produced a bastard child. Yet English translators have long emphasized the ecclesiastical virtues of Augustines masterpiece, often at the expense of its passion and literary vigor. Restoring the lyricism of Augustines original language, Peter Constantine offers a masterful and elegant rendering of Confessions in what will be a classic for decades to come.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.1.2018
• Übersetzer: Peter Constantine
• Vorwort: Jack Miles
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• ISBN-10: 0-87140-759-0 / 0871407590
• ISBN-13: 978-0-87140-759-7 / 9780871407597