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9788498389883

Penélope y las doce criadas/ The Penelopiad

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  • ISBN13:

    9788498389883

  • ISBN10:

    8498389887

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2020-05-19
  • Publisher: Salamandra Publicacions Y Edicions
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Summary

La autora de El cuento de la criada relata la Odisea desde el punto de vista de Penélope, ofreciendo el contrapunto feminista a la obra de Homero.

Penélope ha sido inmortalizada en mitos y leyendas como la devota esposa del glorioso Ulises, tejiendo y destejiendo silenciosamente una mortaja para su suegro, mientras espera el regreso de su marido. En un audaz e inspirado giro, Margaret Atwood cede a Penélope la voz narradora y nos conduce a la respuesta del misterioso episodio del ahorcamiento de las criadas en la Odisea. Ahora Penélope deambula por el inframundo, tejiendo otra trama: su propia versión de la historia, un relato de lujuria, avaricia, injusticia y asesinato. Una narración llena de sabiduría y humor que, con un elevado tono poético, reelabora uno de los mitos fundacionales de la literatura.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when her husband goes to fight in the Trojan War.

As she fends off the attentions of a hundred greedy suitors, travelling minstrels regale her with news of Odysseus' epic adventures around the Mediterranean - slaying monsters and grappling with amorous goddesses. When Odysseus finally comes home, he kills her suitors and then, in an act that served as little more than a footnote in Homer's original story, inexplicably hangs Penelope's twelve maids. Now, Penelope and her chorus of wronged maids tell their side of the story in a new stage version by Margaret Atwood, adapted from her own wry, witty and wise novel.

Author Biography

MARGARET ATWOOD (Ottawa, 1939), una de las escritoras canadienses de mayor renombre internacional, ha cultivado diversos géneros literarios. Su obra ha sido traducida a más de cuarenta idiomas y ha recibido los premios más importantes del panorama literario.

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