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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
ISBN: 1841957178, 9781841957173
Format: epub
Publisher: Canongate U.S.

Others, like Su Tong, Margaret Atwood mixes both of these methods together as she rewrites the tale of Odysseus from the viewpoint of his wife Penelope in 'The Penelopiad'. A review, and links to other information about and reviews of The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood. Written by Margaret Atwood Libri Reviewed by Jodie Authors taking part in the Canongate myths series have reinvented their chosen stories in a number of ways. I liked the subversive After Atwood's The Penelopiad, I'm reading Jeanette Winterson's Weight and Karen Armstrong's A Short History of Myth, another title in the Canongate Myth series. The Penelopiad is the retelling of the myth of Penelope and Odysseus, with Penelope as our narrator. The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus; A volume in Canongate's The Myths-series. Margaret Atwood's “The Penelopiad”. Their contributions to Canongate's myth series, and both books are over-clever in parts. But revisionism done well can be entertaining too. The Penelopiad tells the legendary story of Homer's Odyssey from the point of view of its hero Odysseus's intelligent and long-suffering wife, Penelope. Book – Penelopiad – The Myth Of Penelope and Odysseus. You can find out more about the Canongate Myths series here and here. The story of Penelope – as told by herself. Some, like Ali Smith, have rewritten a myth in modern language and placed the action in the present. This is the fourth book in the Canongate Myths Series that I've read, and incidentally, my first Margaret Atwood. Amazing to me, how Margaret Atwood can take the wife of Odysseus straight out of the Greek myths, and by giving her a personality, as well as a voice, remind me of the women in my very favorite book of hers, The Robber Bride. For to me, as much as anything, The Penelopiad is about the wiles of Helen of Troy against the faithfulness of her cousin, Penelope. This is also the story of Penelope's twelve maids and their murder by Telemachus and Odysseus upon his return. In The Penelopiad, she focuses on the terrible fate of Penelope's twelve maids, strung up by the neck by Odysseus and his son Telemachus once they have butchered Penelope's 120 suitors who endlessly harassed her in the 20 years of Odysseus' absence. The Penelopiad is Atwood's re-telling of Homer's The Odyssey from the perspective of his loyal wife Penelope. When Odysseus finally comes home after enduring hardships, overcoming monsters and sleeping with goddesses, he kills her suitors and – curiously – twelve of Penelope's maids.