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Venus & Adonis

William Shakespeare

  • Categorie: Literatuur & Romans
  • EAN: 9789025310202
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Taal:nl
Bindwijze:Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:14 februari 2019
Aantal pagina's:152
Kaarten inbegrepen:Nee
Illustraties:Met illustraties
Betrokkenen
Hoofdauteur:William Shakespeare
Hoofdillustrator:Marlene Dumas
Tweede Illustrator:Marlene Dumas
Hoofduitgeverij:Athenaeum
Vertaling
Eerste Vertaler:Hafid Bouazza
Tweede Vertaler:J. Jonk
Co Vertaler(s):Hafid Bouazza
Originele titel:Venus and Adonis
Overige kenmerken
Editie:1
Product breedte:178 mm
Product hoogte:20 mm
Product lengte:247 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:178 mm
Verpakking hoogte:20 mm
Verpakking lengte:247 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:563 g


Productbeschrijving

At once comic, tragic and erotic, Venus & Adonis (1593) is a poem by William Shakespeare based on passages from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. This new Dutch translation by Hafid Bouazza of Shakespeare’s text is illustrated by Marlene Dumas, with her complete suite of thirty-three works on paper reproduced throughout.

The poem tells the story of Venus, the goddess of love, and her attempts to seduce the hunter Adonis. It is a complex, kaleidoscopic work in which love takes center stage – Venus’s lustful yearning for Adonis ripples throughout, each stanza and line tinged with unrequited longing. Through a series of expressive ink washes, Dumas paints new passion into the poem – bodies bleed into one another, lips part in sighs of passion.

As Venus declares, “Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, / Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.” Like Shakespeare before her, Dumas opens up a seemingly unending flow between light and dark, love and death, pleasure and pain.