Antigonick

Antigone is a tragedy of rebellion, of the assertion of the free individual in the face of the State’s crushing machinery. Oedipus’s intrepid daughter defies Creon’s edict, invoking the law of the gods, which is far more powerful than that of men, however violent or high-ranking they may be. Creon, a man of authoritarian rhetoric, finds himself cornered by this Antigone of extraordinary vitality, who thwarts the tyrant’s blind arbitrariness through her desire for autonomy – undoubtedly one of her finest qualities. In Carson’s hands, this millennia-old work takes on greater political radicalism and poetic depth. Antigonick is a highly creative, subversive and radical act of translation.