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Confessions - Augustine & Peter Constantine

By Augustine & Peter Constantine

Release Date: 2018-01-23

Genre: Christianity

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This long-awaited translation of Confessions, which Stephen Greenblatt describes as central to the legacy of Adam and Eve, enlivens the beguiling world of late antiquity.
No modern, well-versed literature lover can call her education complete without having read Augustineā€™s Confessions. One of the most original works of world literature, it is the first autobiography ever written, influencing writers from Montaigne to Rousseau, Virginia Woolf to Gertrude Steinā€”and most recently informing Stephen Greenblattā€™s provocative thesis about one of our foundational mythologies in The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve. It is here that we learn how one of the greatest saints in Christendom overcame a wild and reckless past, complete with a rambunctious posse of friends, an overly doting mother, and an affair that produced a ā€œbastardā€ child. Yet English translators have long emphasized the ecclesiastical virtues of Augustineā€™s masterpiece, often at the expense of its passion and literary vigor. Restoring the lyricism of Augustineā€™s original language, Peter Constantine offers a masterful and elegant rendering of Confessions in what will be a classic for decades to come.

Confessions - Augustine & Peter Constantine

By Augustine & Peter Constantine

Release Date: 2018-01-23

Genre: Christianity

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This long-awaited translation of Confessions, which Stephen Greenblatt describes as central to the legacy of Adam and Eve, enlivens the beguiling world of late antiquity.
No modern, well-versed literature lover can call her education complete without having read Augustineā€™s Confessions. One of the most original works of world literature, it is the first autobiography ever written, influencing writers from Montaigne to Rousseau, Virginia Woolf to Gertrude Steinā€”and most recently informing Stephen Greenblattā€™s provocative thesis about one of our foundational mythologies in The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve. It is here that we learn how one of the greatest saints in Christendom overcame a wild and reckless past, complete with a rambunctious posse of friends, an overly doting mother, and an affair that produced a ā€œbastardā€ child. Yet English translators have long emphasized the ecclesiastical virtues of Augustineā€™s masterpiece, often at the expense of its passion and literary vigor. Restoring the lyricism of Augustineā€™s original language, Peter Constantine offers a masterful and elegant rendering of Confessions in what will be a classic for decades to come.

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