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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Songs of the Kings (2002)di Barry Unsworth
The Trojan War (29) Agamemnon's legacy (10) Sto caricando le informazioni...
Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Ouch - it starts out okay but quickly rolls downhill with 21st century slang. I would have appreciated it if the book summary said we would be referencing more modern speech and thoughts here, but I thought we we traveling back to an ancient Greek battleground... ( ) Als een hardnekkige wind de Grieken in Aulis gevangenhoudt en de overtocht naar Troje belet, ontstaat door frustratie en politieke incompetentie het verlangen naar een offer aan Zeus. Het lot valt op Iphigeneia. Agamemnon, Menelaos, de sluwe Odysseus en de narcistische Achilleus spelen hun rol, net als de hogepriesters Calchas en Croton. Sterk karakter is Iphigeneia's slavinnetje Sisiphyla. Je waant je inderdaad terug op de humaniorabanken, gevangen in de betovering van de Griekse mythologie en haar verhalen. I have much preferred Unsworth's other novels. The Trojan War saga is a bombastic bore for me. Nevertheless, as a satire on getting the history (or the story) right for future consumption, this is very well done. The Greek commanders come across as self-serving, ignoble go-getters set on glory and enrichment once they reach Troy. They are morally unperturbed by encouraging the sacrifice of Iphigenia as a sop to the army's growing distrust at the way the campaign has started. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
“Troy meant one thing only to the men gathered here, as it did to their commanders. Troy was a dream of wealth; and if the wind continued the dream would crumble.” As the harsh wind holds the Greek fleet trapped in the straits at Aulis, frustration and political impotence turn into a desire for the blood of a young and innocent woman – blood that will appease the gods and allow the troops to set sail. And when Iphigeneia, Agamemnon’s beloved daughter, is brought to the coast under false pretences, and when a knife is fashioned out of the finest and most precious of materials, it looks as if the ships will soon be on their way. But can a father really go to these lengths to secure political victory, and can a daughter willingly give up her life for the worldly ambitions of her father? Throwing off the heroic values we expect of them, Barry Unsworth’s mythic characters embrace the political ethos of the twenty-first century and speak in words we recognize as our own. The blowhard Odysseus warns the men to not “marginalize” Agamemnon and to “strike while the bronze is hot.” High-sounding principles clash with private motives, and dark comedy ensues. Here is a novel that stands the world on its head. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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