Confessions: A New Translation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780871407146)

No modern, well-versed literature lover can call her education complete without having read Augustine's Confessions. One of the most original works of world literature, it is the first autobiography ever written, influencing writers from Montaigne to Rousseau, Virginia Woolf to Gertrude Stein--and most recently informing Stephen Greenblatt's provocative thesis about one of our foundational mythologies in The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve. It is here that we learn how one of the greatest saints in Christendom overcame a wild and reckless past, complete with a rambunctious posse of friends, an overly doting mother, and an affair that produced a "bastard" child. Yet English translators have long emphasized the ecclesiastical virtues of Augustine's masterpiece, often at the expense of its passion and literary vigor. Restoring the lyricism of Augustine's original language, Peter Constantine offers a masterful and elegant rendering of Confessions in what will be a classic for decades to come.

Author: Augustine
ISBN-10: 0871407140
ISBN-13: 9780871407146
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2018
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.50w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/13/2017
Library Journal 11/15/2017