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Indlæser... Itaca per sempre (1997)af Luigi Malerba
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. The story of Odysseus's homecoming, told alternatively from Odysseus's and Penelope's point of view. For much of this book I felt it was just a re-telling of the second half of the Odyssey which stuck too close to the original. It was only after Odysseus (disguised as the beggar) and Penelope met and the two tricksters start manoeuvring round each other that I really thought we were getting anything new ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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After twenty years, Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca, but instead of receiving the homecoming he had hoped for finds himself caught in an intense battle of wills with his faithful and long-suffering wife Penelope. When Penelope recognizes him under the guise of a beggar, she becomes furious with him for not trusting her enough to include her in his plans for ridding the palace of the Suitors. As a result, she plays her own game of fictions to make him suffer for this lack of faith, inspiring jealousy, self-doubt, and misgivings in her husband, the legendary Homeric hero. In this captivating retelling of the Odyssey, Penelope rises as a major force with whom to be reckoned. Shifting between first-person reflections, Ithaca Forever reveals the deeply personal and powerful perspectives of both wife and husband as they struggle for respect and supremacy within a marriage that has been on hold for twenty years. Translated by PEN award-winner Douglas Grant Heise, Luigi Malerba's novel gives us a remarkable version of this greatest work of western literature: Odysseus as a man full of doubts and Penelope as a woman of great depth and strength. No library descriptions found. |
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This is a book which will make you feel uncomfortable. It is a study in human psychology and what-aboutism. The characters in the novel are stuck in a convoluted plane which clashes between fiction and reality. There are references to adultery, betrayal and disloyalty. By the end, it is up to the reader to conclude whether Penelope was indeed faithful to Odysseus or whether Odysseus's own suspicious mind is properly summarizing that she was on the cusp of selecting a suitor to supplant him. ( )