Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet: The Whirling Meaning of What we Read

Anne Carson, the Canadian poet and essayist, has for years been named among the leading contenders for the Nobel Prize in Literature. It's no wonder Polish publishers are showing growing interest in her books.

By Monika Ochędowska

Written in the mid-1980s, Eros the Bittersweet is both Carson's first book and the first of her works to be translated into Polish (its excellent translation by Renata Lis appeared in 2020). Three very different titles from the Canadian's oeuvre followed soon after: Autobiography of Red (Ossolineum, 2022), The Beauty of the Husband (Słowa na wybiegu, 2022), and Decreation: Poems, Essays, Opera (Ossolineum, 2024).