Book, Antigone by Sophocles[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. It's curious that a virgin, who laments dying without a husband and without children, reveals total indifference towards her fiancé Hemon.. This indifference is even more surprising if we remember that Antigone, from the beginning of the tragedy, shows herself aware of the punishment that will result from the burial of Polynices. That is, Antigone knows she will die and concentrates all her energy on the act that accelerates her end. […] And the impossibility of displacing her desire outside the scope of a family marked by incest, which leads her to ignore her own fiancé' and the reflection that Trajano Vieira makes on one of the most powerful texts of the so-called Greek Tragedy. However original it may be, it does not exhaust or exclude interpretations such as those of Steiner, Vernant, and Reinhardt, whose perceptions, like those of a tradition several millennia old of tragediographic exegesis, only give the measure of the intellectual, existential, and human breadth of the text created by Sophocles.. The poetic quality and the language resources, used with such proficiency by the translator in our language, only accentuate this power to speak of man and his ways of being with a voice that, from the depths of history, projects towards the infinite future the meanings of human existence.. [J.G.]