Word: prose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Michael Cacoyannis's Iphigenia is "based" on Euripides's Iphigenia at Aulis, but has been freely "translated" by the director from ancient Greek verse into modern Greek prose. At least half of the words have been discarded in the process. Something is inevitably lost, but the result is thoroughly satisfying cinematically, an impressive film which comes within striking distance of greatness, only to blunder shamefully in its final moments...
Cacoyannis's adaptation incorporates spectacle and visual grandeur, opening up the play logically, to include scenes with the army, and beginning the film with early events which are only recounted in the original. His prose, at least as translated by the subtitles (admittedly a shaky source) is spare and tight, penetrating immediately to the emotional core of every speech and rendering it as simply as possible. What has been cut from the dialogue is most always conveyed visually, usually through the expressions of the actors. Cacoyannis drops the chorus, the most glaringly unrealistic element of the play, although fragments...
...much matter which language, either. Flann was comfortable in German, French and Latin, although his English prose style was most thoroughly affected by his knowledge of Gaelic. He regularly mocked those nationalists and bicycling anthropologists who made the preservation of Gaelic a sacred mission. In The Poor Mouth (1941) a long tale written in the old language, O'Brien shows a linguist from Dublin religiously transcribing the grunts of a western Irish pig. Flann even joked about the impulse that led him to learn his native tongue: "Having nothing to say, I thought at the time that...
...variety of other works. Those included a widely read space fantasy trilogy and seven immensely successful children's stories known as The Chronicles of Narnia. As an expert on medieval and Renaissance English at Oxford and Cambridge he also produced standard works on Spenser, Milton, and 16th century prose and poetry...
...book of the 1970s is Mere Christianity (1952), the work of straightforward evangelism that snatched White House Felon Charles Colson out of Screwtape's dominion. This highly original statement of wholly unoriginal doctrine was first f prepared as a series of talks "on the BBC. Lewis, whose |s prose comes clad in the crisp white linen of logic, starts from mankind's inherent sense of right and wrong. Think about this, Lewis says: men feel wet when they fall into water; fish do not. If men feel "wet"-alien-in a world where evil abounds, he reasons...