Penelope with Attitude

Literary Review of Canada | March 1, 2006| | Copyright

Penelope with Attitude A retelling of Homer overshadowed by indignation. The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus Margaret Atwood Knopf 200 pages, hardcover ISBN o676974i8x

Mythical figures are Houdinis. No sooner have they been padlocked inside some airtight text than they wriggle free. Achilles, Hector, Helen of Troy and even such later creations as Hamlet or Don Quixote live and move in our imaginations as much as in books. Of these immemorial escapeartists, none is more slippery than Odysseus. His peregrinations after the fall of Troy pale beside his posthumous wanderings through ...

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