This is a wonderful counterpoint to your HYPERALLERGIC review. I read that through Sarah Bond’s repost on BlueSky. The differences in ‘voice’ and message as a function of audience is apparent. Here, I feel you are speaking directly to me; I hear a voice and feel a presence.
Thank you for all of the pointers. I hope to find time to chase them all down.
Thesis 3, totally. I haven't seen the movie yet, it's not available in my country yet, but I saw the trailer and I thought it was great. The fact that they focus on one last episode only because in my opinion it's impossible to make the whole epic in one movie without failing. A series would be appropriate, but they would surely do something very bad so it's better to leave it like that. Nolan's movie... I fear the worst, starting with the cast. But anyway, time will tell.
I would be interested in reading your opinions about Wilson in detail. I know that much of the criticism that is given is misogynistic and therefore meaningless, in my personal opinion I don't like the translation simply because I find it lacking in many parts and very simple in others, without strength. I understand that she wanted to make it accessible to the current generation, but I don't think it was the best.
Couple of points: if O is the author of his own misfortune, his mistake is surely waiting around for the Cyclops to turn up and give him presents? Once things go wrong he is doing well to escape (and the Cyclops already knows his name from the prophecy). His problem is usually his men being repeatedly idiots, but here he behaves like an idiot while his men beg him not to. My anachronistic reaction to book 9 is about the Kikonians - we sacked the city, killed the men and shared out the wives, just because they were there. Hasn't 10 years of this stuff been enough for you, you bastard?
Westerns - I agree about the incredibly filmic nature of the beginning of book 22, it's why I want to see a film of it. (The film it really puts me in mind of is Key Largo, when Bogart decides to shoot everyone). Not sure it's ultraviolent though, e.g. by Iliad standards.
This is a wonderful counterpoint to your HYPERALLERGIC review. I read that through Sarah Bond’s repost on BlueSky. The differences in ‘voice’ and message as a function of audience is apparent. Here, I feel you are speaking directly to me; I hear a voice and feel a presence.
Thank you for all of the pointers. I hope to find time to chase them all down.
Thesis 3, totally. I haven't seen the movie yet, it's not available in my country yet, but I saw the trailer and I thought it was great. The fact that they focus on one last episode only because in my opinion it's impossible to make the whole epic in one movie without failing. A series would be appropriate, but they would surely do something very bad so it's better to leave it like that. Nolan's movie... I fear the worst, starting with the cast. But anyway, time will tell.
I would be interested in reading your opinions about Wilson in detail. I know that much of the criticism that is given is misogynistic and therefore meaningless, in my personal opinion I don't like the translation simply because I find it lacking in many parts and very simple in others, without strength. I understand that she wanted to make it accessible to the current generation, but I don't think it was the best.
Lombardo's is my favorite right now. I translated the Batrachomyomachia into heroic couplets.
Thank you for making me aware of The Return
Couple of points: if O is the author of his own misfortune, his mistake is surely waiting around for the Cyclops to turn up and give him presents? Once things go wrong he is doing well to escape (and the Cyclops already knows his name from the prophecy). His problem is usually his men being repeatedly idiots, but here he behaves like an idiot while his men beg him not to. My anachronistic reaction to book 9 is about the Kikonians - we sacked the city, killed the men and shared out the wives, just because they were there. Hasn't 10 years of this stuff been enough for you, you bastard?
Westerns - I agree about the incredibly filmic nature of the beginning of book 22, it's why I want to see a film of it. (The film it really puts me in mind of is Key Largo, when Bogart decides to shoot everyone). Not sure it's ultraviolent though, e.g. by Iliad standards.