House of Names
Autor Colm Tóibínen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 apr 2018
'Unforgettable'Mary Beard
'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her muffled screams.'
On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice.
His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glorious victory.
Three years later, he returns home and his murderous action has set the entire family - mother, brother, sister - on a path of intimate violence, as they enter a world of hushed commands and soundless journeys through the palace's dungeons and bedchambers. As his wife seeks his death, his daughter, Electra, is the silent observer to the family's game of innocence while his son, Orestes, is sent into bewildering, frightening exile where survival is far from certain. Out of their desolating loss, Electra and Orestes must find a way to right these wrongs of the past even if it means committing themselves to a terrible, barbarous act.
House of Namesis a story of intense longing and shocking betrayal. It is a work of great beauty, and daring, from one of our finest living writers.
'A masterpeice'Daily Telegraph
'Devastatingly human ... hauntingly believable'Guardian
'A celebration of what novels can do'Observer
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241257692
ISBN-10: 0241257697
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241257697
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
Part
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Toibin's
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restraint
and
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Unforgettable
A giant amongst storytellers,Toibin has thrown down the gauntlet with his latest novel . . .And it is a masterpiece
A gorgeous stylist, Tóibín captures the subtle flutterings of consciousness better than any writer alive . . .Never before has Tóibín demonstrated such range, not just in tone but in action.He creates the arresting, hushed scenes for which he's so well known just as effectively as he whips up murders that compete, pint for spilled pint, with those immortal Greek playwrights
This is a novel about the way the members of a family keep secrets from one another, tell lies and make mistakes.. .
In a novel describing one of the Western world's oldest legends, in which the gods are conspicuous by their absence, Tóibín achieves a paradoxical richness of characterisation and a humanisation of the mythological, marking House Of Names as the superbly realised work of an author at the top of his game.
A spellbinding adaptation of the Clytemnestra myth, House of Names considers the Mycenaen queen in all her guises: grieving mother, seductress, ruthless leader - and victim of the ultimate betrayal.
A haunting story, largely because Tóibín tells it in spare, resonant prose...
A GreekHouse of Cards... Just like Heaney at the end of his Mycenae lookout, Toibin's novel augurs an era of renewal that comes directly from the cessation of hostilities.
The book's mastery of pacing and tone affirm the writer as one of our finest at work today.
A daring, and triumphant return, to the Oresteia... bleakly beautiful twilight of the Gods.
It couldn't have been done better
A visceral reworking ofOresteia
The escalation of violence and desire for revenge has deliberate echoes of the Irish Troubles
A giant amongst storytellers,Toibin has thrown down the gauntlet with his latest novel . . .And it is a masterpiece
A gorgeous stylist, Tóibín captures the subtle flutterings of consciousness better than any writer alive . . .Never before has Tóibín demonstrated such range, not just in tone but in action.He creates the arresting, hushed scenes for which he's so well known just as effectively as he whips up murders that compete, pint for spilled pint, with those immortal Greek playwrights
This is a novel about the way the members of a family keep secrets from one another, tell lies and make mistakes.. .
In a novel describing one of the Western world's oldest legends, in which the gods are conspicuous by their absence, Tóibín achieves a paradoxical richness of characterisation and a humanisation of the mythological, marking House Of Names as the superbly realised work of an author at the top of his game.
A spellbinding adaptation of the Clytemnestra myth, House of Names considers the Mycenaen queen in all her guises: grieving mother, seductress, ruthless leader - and victim of the ultimate betrayal.
A haunting story, largely because Tóibín tells it in spare, resonant prose...
A GreekHouse of Cards... Just like Heaney at the end of his Mycenae lookout, Toibin's novel augurs an era of renewal that comes directly from the cessation of hostilities.
The book's mastery of pacing and tone affirm the writer as one of our finest at work today.
A daring, and triumphant return, to the Oresteia... bleakly beautiful twilight of the Gods.
It couldn't have been done better
A visceral reworking ofOresteia
The escalation of violence and desire for revenge has deliberate echoes of the Irish Troubles
Notă biografică
Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of nine novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary and Nora Webster and, most recently, House of Names. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker three times, won the Costa Novel Award and the Impac Award. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction. He lives in Dublin.