The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus pdf download
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The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus by Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus Margaret Atwood ebook
Page: 224
Format: epub
Publisher: Canongate U.S.
ISBN: 1841957178, 9781841957173
The Penelopiad is part of the Canongate Myth series. Originally written as a novella by Atwood and then adapted for the stage The verbal digs between her and her cousin, Helen of Troy, brought a human face to both these two heroines of mythology. Told from the perspective of Penelope and twelve of her maids, The Penelopiad recounts what happened to everyone left behind whilst Odysseus was on his many voyages after the Trojan War. Was Penelope as loyal and devoted as she made out to be? This book was This one by Margaret is a bit of a different slant on the myth of Penelope and Odysseus. As part of Canongate's 'Myths' series, Atwood was commissioned to re-tell a myth, and originally, she wrote, tried to re-write a Viking legend, before realising that she was “haunted” by the fate of the handmaids in the Odyssey, hanged arbitrarily by Telemachus, for having sex She decided that she would write a version of the tale which would address this problem, and tell Penelope's story as she waited and waited for Odysseus to come home from the Trojan War. The Penelopiad is an exquisitely narrated re-imagining of Homer's Odyssey, from the perspective of Penelope, faithful wife of Odysseus, who waited twenty years for him to return from fighting the Trojan War. So maybe that's why Atwood found Penelope so easy to recreate in The Penelopiad, her rewrite of the Greek myth of Penelope and Odysseus. In Margaret Atwood's play The Penelopiad, based on Homer's epic The Odyssey, Odysseus' spouse, Penelope, is portrayed in a way we've never known her: caustic, crafty, and unflinching. �Her twist on this well-known myth turns it on its head by giving Penelope the opportunity to tell her story in her own voice.” Margaret Atwood, Penelopiad. Tonight I am thinking of Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad, a book I read just prior to Kundera's Identity. Thoughts: The good news is that The Penelopiad definitely passed the test of time for me.