The Lost Books of the Odyssey
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| Verlag | Random House UK |
| Auflage | 2011 |
| Seiten | 240 |
| Format | 19,8 cm |
| Gewicht | 170 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0099547074 |
| EAN | 9780099547075 |
| Bestell-Nr | 09954707EA |
An extraordinary imagining of episodes, fragments and revisions of Homer\'s Odyssey, a book destined to become a modern classic.
Klappentext:
After ten years\' journeying Odysseus returns, again and again, to Ithaca. Each time he finds something different: his patient wife Penelope has betrayed him and married; his arrival accelerates time and he watches his family age and die in front of him; he walks into an empty house in ruins; he returns but is so bored he sets sail again to repeat his voyage; he comes back to find Penelope is dead.
In these forty-four retellings of passages from Homer\'s Odyssey, Zachary Mason uses Homer\'s linear narrative and explodes it: presenting alternative and contradictory fragments of familiar stories - the Trojan Horse, the Cyclops, Circe, the Sirens - allowing us to see Homer\'s masterpiece afresh. Elegant, provocative and utterly fascinating, The Lost Books of the Odyssey seems destined to become a modern classic.
Rezension:
"A subtle, inventive and moving meditation on the nature of story and what Louis MacNeice calls \'the drunkenness of things being various\'" John Banville
