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What is The Fourth Dimension about?

In the dramatic monologues that make up The Fourth Dimension --especially those based on the grim history of Mycenae and its royal protagonists--the celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos presents a timeless poetic paradigm of the condition of Greece, past and present. The volume also contains a group of modern narratives, including the famous, and much-anthologized, "Moonlight Sonata." Ritsos, rightly, regarded the The Fourth Dimension as his finest achievement. It is now presented to English- speaking readers for the first time in its entirety. From "Philoctetes" All the speeches of great men, about the dead and about heroes. Astonishing, awesome words, pursued us even in our sleep, slipping beneath closed doors, from the banqueting hall where glasses and voices sparkled, and the veil of an unseen dancer rippled silently like a diaphanous, whirling wall between life and death. This throbbing our childhood nights, lightening the shadows of shields etched on white walls by slow moonlight.

Author

Yannis Ritsos

Publisher

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400884407

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.22 / 5 (213 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14