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Carregando... The Lost Books of the Odyssey: A Novel (original: 2010; edição: 2010)de Zachary Mason
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Basically a collection of apocrypha (big plus) that are highly reminiscent of Italo Calvino (big plus). The language is lovely and I find this so quotable. However, there are several especially in the beginning that read like great ideas which were never developed. If you gave me the sketch, I would read the story - but the story isn't there, only the sketch. In the end, I dig it. It's different and creative and I love the idea. Whatever negatives I have, they're worth it. This book consists of 44 chapters in which the events of The Odyssey are pulled apart and put back together again in different ways. We get new views of Polyphemus, Calypso, Circe, Penelope, Telemachus, Pallas Athena, and more as the story changes from the familiar narrative: Penelope is dead, Penelope has remarried, the Trojan War runs on repeat for infinity, and so on. It is a book to warm up to; the first couple of chapters take some getting used to, but overall I enjoyed this retelling a great deal. Some of them had particularly good twists. And now I think I’m going to have to re-read The Odyssey to see what “actually” happened.
Yet in The Lost Books of the Odyssey, Zachary Mason has achieved something remarkable. He's written a first novel that is not just vibrantly original but also an insightful commentary on Homer's epic and its lasting hold on our imagination. "Mr. Mason's clean and engaging prose ensures that his variations on the Odyssey never feel like sterile experiments." In “The Lost Books of the Odyssey” Mr. Mason — who is identified on the book jacket as a computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence, as well as a finalist for the 2009 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, given to writers under 35 — has written a series of jazzy, post-modernist variations on “The Odyssey,” and in doing so he’s created an ingeniously Borgesian novel that’s witty, playful, moving and tirelessly inventive. This is, to my surprise, a wonderful book. I had expected it to be rather preening, and probably thin. But it is intelligent, absorbing, wonderfully written, and perhaps the most revelatory and brilliant prose encounter with Homer since James Joyce. Foi inspirada porThe Odyssey de Homer
A brilliant and beguiling reimagining of Homer's classic story about the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The book is a deft and subtle translation of Greek literature for the present day. Personhood, storytelling, memory, and self-awareness are some of the subjects it examines. According to how much light the story decides to shed, Mason's characters can change shape and become elusive, just like the ones in Homer's original.
The traditional Homer stories are transformed into new episodes, fragments, and revisions using beautiful prose, a vivid imagination, and stunning literary skill. When read as a whole, these additions expose the timeless Greek epic to countless resonant interpretations. The Lost Books of the Odyssey is It is laced with wonderful wit, elegance, and playfulness.
I found that it was worthwhile, but only for those who have already read Homer's original epic saga. ( )