The Lost Books of the Odyssey

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9780224090223
  • 06 mei 2010
  • 240 pagina's
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In the plain outside the walls of Troy, Agamemnon demands a fortress. With no materials except a few trees and unlimited sand, the Greeks dig a negative image of a palace into the white plain: a vast, inverted castle soaring into the depths of the earth. 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; and, he comes back to find Penelope is dead. Made up of forty-four retellings of passages from Homer's Odyssey , Zachary Mason's book is a fictional apocrypha: a radical and thrilling renovation of classical legend. He uses Homer's linear narrative and explodes it: presenting fragments of alternative and contradictory re-takes and out-takes of the same familiar stories - 'The Trojan Horse', 'The Cyclops', 'Circe', 'The Sirens' - breaking them up and putting them together into new shapes. Turned inside-out, these stories become glosses, mirrors and mazes that explore and examine Odysseus' journey: allowing us to see it afresh, in all its ambition, sadness and futility. Reminiscent of Borges or the Calvino of Invisible Cities , The Lost Books of the Odyssey is elegant, allusive, provocative and utterly fascinating - and seems destined to become a modern classic.

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06 mei 2010
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240
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Zachary Mason
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Vintage Publishing

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137 mm
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205 mm
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205 mm
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360 g

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    This is an Odysseus you haven't met before. Told in short episodes, Zachary Mason creates a different kind of hero then we have met in Homer's famous epic poem. It's a thick text, filled to the brim with intertextual references and philosophical ideas. If you like postmodernism, this is the book, if not... read the original.

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