After Fame: The Epigrams of Martial
Written by Sam Riviere
Narrated by Sam Riviere
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About this audiobook
After Fame is a discursive rendering of the Roman epigrammatist Martial's Book I.
Its 118 poems, on themes such as work, friendship and public life, are modelled after the source material through a variety of 'treatments'—most notably machine translation (for which Latin still presents near-insurmountable difficulties), employing the results as scaffolding for poems that quickly improvise their way clear of their originals. As it progresses, the narrative is increasingly interrupted by reflections on authorship, technology, cultural complicity and the privileged, mediating role of the poet: all fixations of Martial's work that still resonate today.
Pitched between translation and new writing, After Fame challenges the integrity of both categories, dramatising the obscurity of its source, refraining from easy equivalences, while insisting on its contemporary relevance.
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