{"product_id":"h-of-h-playbook","title":"H of H Playbook","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eANNE CARSON - NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Fans of Anne Carson, rejoice!... Carson's depth of knowledge about Greek mythology coupled with her poetic sensibility and illustrations is sure to breathe new life into this oft-told story.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e Lit Hub\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eH of H Playbook\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an explosion of thought, in drawings and language, about a Greek tragedy called \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHerakles \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eby the 5th-century BC poet Euripides. In myth Herakles is an embodiment of manly violence who returns home after years of making war on enemies and monsters (his famous \"Labours of Herakles\") to find he cannot adapt himself to a life of peacetime domesticity. He goes berserk and murders his whole family. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSuicide is his next idea. Amazingly, this does not happen. Due to the intervention of his friend Theseus, Herakles comes to believe he is not, after all, indelibly stained by his own crimes, nor is his life without value. It remains for the reader to judge this redemptive outcome.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"I think there is no such thing as an innocent landscape,\" said Anselm Kiefer, painter of forests grown tall on bones.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=author:Anne+Carson\"\u003eAnne Carson\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anne Carson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67641530089635,"sku":"9781787333796","price":535.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/9781787333796.jpg?v=1791460869","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/h-of-h-playbook","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}