Sapho: Lavender Octavo
Autor Renée Vivien Traducere de Louise MartinPaperback – 15 oct 2026
Only fragments of Sappho survive: broken lines salvaged from two and a half thousand years of silence. In 1903, poet Renée Vivien filled the gaps not with scholarship but with devotion: a daring French translation of the ancient fragments paired with her own poems written in answer to them. This edition, translated into English for the first time by Louise Martin, brings Vivien's singular act of reclamation, one woman speaking across millennia to another, to English-language readers for the first time.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781998648757
ISBN-10: 1998648753
Pagini: 164
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Lavender Octavo
Colecția Lavender Octavo
Seria Lavender Octavo
ISBN-10: 1998648753
Pagini: 164
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Lavender Octavo
Colecția Lavender Octavo
Seria Lavender Octavo
Notă biografică
Renée Vivien (1877-1909) was a British-born poet who wrote almost exclusively in French, becoming one of the most striking voices of the fin-de-siècle Paris literary scene. Born Pauline Mary Tarn in London, she moved to Paris as a young woman and reinvented herself as a poet steeped in classical antiquity, openly writing of love between women at a time when doing so took real courage. A devoted admirer of Sappho, she taught herself ancient Greek to translate the poet's surviving fragments, publishing her landmark Sapho in 1903. Vivien died at just 32, leaving behind a body of work that helped lay the foundation for openly lesbian literature in the twentieth century.