A Le Monde column links Antonella Anedda's island book to Anne Carson's Greek affinities
In her literary column for Le Monde, Tiphaine Samoyault reads the Italian poet's new, genre-defying book on the islands off Sardinia alongside the work of Anne Carson, finding in both a retreat from the first person and a lasting conversation with ancient Greece.
Le Monde's literary columnist Tiphaine Samoyault has devoted her feuilleton of October 29 to "En Sardaigne il n'y a que des îles," a book by the Italian poet Antonella Anedda that the paper describes as unclassifiable. According to the summary given by Le Monde, the book traces Anedda's fascination with an archipelago lying off Sardinia and Corsica.
The column's headline draws a parallel between Anedda and Anne Carson, identified there as a Nobel laureate, arguing that the two writers share a common movement: a distancing from the first-person "je" and a lasting friendship with the ancient Greeks. Beyond this framing, the source material gives no further detail on what form that distancing takes in Anedda's new book, nor on which of Carson's works Samoyault draws into the comparison.
No publisher, translator or publication date for "En Sardaigne il n'y a que des îles" is given in the material available to this desk, so none is reported here.
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