Sapho
Traduction Nouvelle Avec Le Texte Grec
$41.11
- Paperback
166 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2026
Summary
Only fragments of Sappho survive: broken lines salvaged from two and a half thousand years of silence. In 1903, poet Renée Vivien filled the gaps not with scholarship but with devotion: a daring French translation of the ancient fragments paired with her own poems written in answer to them. This edition, translated into English for the first time by Louise Martin, brings Vivien’s singular act of reclamation, one woman speaking across millennia to another, to English-language readers for the first time.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781998648757 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1998648753 |
| Author: | Renée Vivien, Louise Martin |
| Publisher: | Lavender Octavo |
| Imprint: | Lavender Octavo |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 166 |
| Release Date: | 14 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 168g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 127mm x 203mm |
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Renée Vivien
Renée Vivien (1877-1909)
Renée Vivien was a British-born poet who wrote almost exclusively in French, becoming one of the most striking voices of the fin-de-siècle Paris literary scene. Born Pauline Mary Tarn in London, she moved to Paris as a young woman and reinvented herself as a poet steeped in classical antiquity. She openly wrote of love between women at a time when doing so took real courage.
A devoted admirer of Sappho, Vivien taught herself ancient Greek to translate the poet’s surviving fragments, publishing her landmark Sapho in 1903.
Vivien died at just 32, leaving behind a body of work that helped lay the foundation for openly lesbian literature in the twentieth century.
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