The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek

Author:   Andrea Marcolongo ,  Will Schutt
Publisher:   Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
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Pages:   176
Publication Date:   03 October 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Andrea Marcolongo ,  Will Schutt
Publisher:   Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Imprint:   Europa Compass
ISBN:  

9781787701830


ISBN 10:   1787701832
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   03 October 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Language:   English

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The Magic Language is a love letter which aims to the dispel the dread that surrounds ancient Greek. * Rivista Studio * Marcolongo writes about ancient Greek in a new, non-academic way. Her aim is to excite our interest for a language that today seems more alive and necessary than ever, because of its ability to `tell complex things with simple, true, and honest words'. * Il Corriere della Sera * A love story about a language, and its ability to affect our senses. * La Stampa *


The Magic Language is a love letter which aims to the dispel the dread that surrounds ancient Greek. * Rivista Studio * Marcolongo writes about ancient Greek in a new, non-academic way. Her aim is to excite our interest for a language that today seems more alive and necessary than ever, because of its ability to 'tell complex things with simple, true, and honest words'. * Il Corriere della Sera * A love story about a language, and its ability to affect our senses. * La Stampa * Aciman mentions THE INGENIOUS LANGUAGE as the first book on his nightstand and says The Ingenious Language, by Andrea Marcolongo, who loves ancient Greece and gives antiquity a new, very modern face. -- Andre' Aciman * The New York Times * Joyous, superb and exuberant, The Ingenious Language by Andrea Marcolongo is an irrepressibly compelling, playfully erudite and deliciously charming celebration of Greek. Everyone should read it. -- Simon Sebag Montefiore A delightfully spirited yet succinct apologia for the magnificent and elegant ancient Greek language . * The Guardian *


The Magic Language is a love letter which aims to the dispel the dread that surrounds ancient Greek. * Rivista Studio * Marcolongo writes about ancient Greek in a new, non-academic way. Her aim is to excite our interest for a language that today seems more alive and necessary than ever, because of its ability to 'tell complex things with simple, true, and honest words'. * Il Corriere della Sera * A love story about a language, and its ability to affect our senses. * La Stampa *


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Andrea Marcolongo is an Italian journalist, writers, Classics scholar, and former speech writer for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. The Ingenious Language was a bestseller in Italy and in many of the other dozen countries in which it has thus far been published. She is also the author of The Heroic Measure. Will Schutt is the author of Westerly, winner of the 2012 Yale Series of Younger Poets award. His poems and translations have appeared in Agni, Narrative, The New Republic, and The Southern Review. For his translations of poems by Edoardo Sanguineti he received grants from the NEA and PEN/ America. He lives in Baltimore.

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