{"product_id":"9781400078905","title":"Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera (By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature) (Vintage Contemporaries)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFROM ANNE CARSON, WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn “exhilarating” collection of remarkably eclectic forms, “full of marvelous insights” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e) into the making and unmaking of a self\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“One of the most interesting gatherings of material that any poet has published within living memory.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSimone Weil described “decreation” as “undoing the creature in us”—an undoing of self. In this characteristically brilliant collection, Anne Carson explores this idea with a tantalizing range of reference, moving from Aphrodite to Antonioni, Demosthenes to Annie Dillard, Telemachos to Trotsky, and writing in forms as varied as opera libretto, screenplay, poem, oratorio, essay, shot list, and rapture. As she makes her way through these forms she slowly dismantles them, and in doing so seeks to move through the self, to its undoing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52828148629735,"sku":"Poetry","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/3680\/9959\/files\/71_uNoJQhML._SY522.jpg?v=1792006543","url":"https:\/\/jfbooks.org\/zh-hant\/products\/9781400078905","provider":"JF Books | 季風書園","version":"1.0","type":"link"}