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'Atwood takes Penelope's part with tremendous verve ... she explores the very nature of mythic story-telling.' Mary Beard, Guardian 'In this exquisitely poised book, Atwood blends intimate humour with a finely tempered outrage at the terrible injustice of the maids.' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Sunday Times 'Penelope flies with the help of the sardonic, deadpan voice Atwood lends her, a tone half-Dorothy Parker, half-Desperate Housewives.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent '"Spry" is a word that could almost have been invented to describe Margaret Atwood, who beadily and wittily retells the events surrounding the Odyssey through the voice of Penelope. Pragmatic, clever, domestic, mournful, Penelope is a perfect Atwood heroine.' Sam Leith, Spectator 'An enjoyable, intelligent variation on Penelope's story.' Christopher Tayler, Sunday Telegraph 'Margaret Atwood, with characteristic dryness, acuity and wit, takes on The Odyssey in The Penelopiad, which gives us the wife's point of view.' Erica Wagner, The Times
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Jeder kennt die Geschichte von der Irrfahrt und den Abenteuern des Odysseus. Aber kennen wir auch die ganze Geschichte? Margaret Atwood schildert nun die Ereignisse aus Penelopes Sicht und zeichnet damit ein neues, völlig anderes Bild.
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Auf dem Cover der englischen Ausgabe dieses Büchleins wird ein Kritiker zitiert, welcher Atwoods "Penelopiade" mit den angeblich verzweifelten Hausfrauen einer berühmten Fernsehserie verglich. Der Vergleich ist natürlich unangebracht. Atwoods Buch ist schlicht und ergreifend, witziger, schneller, träumerischer und in seinen Aussagen bissiger, als jede TV Serie, das heutzutage überhaupt sein könnte.
Dieses Buch ist ein Buch über die Lüge und die Liebe in Zeiten des Krieges. Zwar ist es ein kalter Krieg, der hier behandelt wird - dennoch ist es ein Krieg.
Seine Schlachtfelder: die Küchen und Scheuern, die Säle und Schlafzimmer des Königreichs von Ithaka, belagert von den Horden zynischer Freier, entschlossen sich der klugen Königin Penelopes zu bemächtigen. Die es zwar offensichtlich längst aufgegeben hat, auf ihren abenteuerlustigen Gatten Odysseus zu warten, sich aber dennoch halsstarrig dagegen sträubt ihr Schicksal anzunehmen und endlich einen der verfressenen und ungehobelten Freier, die wie die biblische Heuschreckenplage in Penelopes Haus und Hof einfielen, zu erhören.
Wie in jedem Krieg sind auch in diesem Opfer zu beklagen. Doch dass es ausgerechnet erst nach dem Ende jenes kalten Krieges zu einem Akt höchster Grausamkeit und himmelschreiender Ungerechtigkeit kommt - und kommen muss - beschreibt Margaret Atwood hier in einer schon beinah aufreizend kühlen Präzision. Allein das würde dieses kleine Buch zu einem Meisterwerk gestempelt haben. Doch erlaubt uns Atwood eben jenen letzten Akt hoher Grausamkeit nach dem Ende des Krieges, auch als Analogie für jene so berühmte Weisheit von der Wahrheit als erstes Opfer jedes Krieges zu lesen. Die Liebe und die Lüge - in den Zeiten des Krieges. Selten zuvor und wie zu erwarten ist, noch seltener nach Margaret Atwood wird man einen Text finden, der diese beiden wohl größten Themen der Literatur derart gekonnt behandelt.
Was es auszusetzen gibt an diesem Buch? Nichts.
Dieses Buch ist ein Buch über die Lüge und die Liebe in Zeiten des Krieges. Zwar ist es ein kalter Krieg, der hier behandelt wird - dennoch ist es ein Krieg.
Seine Schlachtfelder: die Küchen und Scheuern, die Säle und Schlafzimmer des Königreichs von Ithaka, belagert von den Horden zynischer Freier, entschlossen sich der klugen Königin Penelopes zu bemächtigen. Die es zwar offensichtlich längst aufgegeben hat, auf ihren abenteuerlustigen Gatten Odysseus zu warten, sich aber dennoch halsstarrig dagegen sträubt ihr Schicksal anzunehmen und endlich einen der verfressenen und ungehobelten Freier, die wie die biblische Heuschreckenplage in Penelopes Haus und Hof einfielen, zu erhören.
Wie in jedem Krieg sind auch in diesem Opfer zu beklagen. Doch dass es ausgerechnet erst nach dem Ende jenes kalten Krieges zu einem Akt höchster Grausamkeit und himmelschreiender Ungerechtigkeit kommt - und kommen muss - beschreibt Margaret Atwood hier in einer schon beinah aufreizend kühlen Präzision. Allein das würde dieses kleine Buch zu einem Meisterwerk gestempelt haben. Doch erlaubt uns Atwood eben jenen letzten Akt hoher Grausamkeit nach dem Ende des Krieges, auch als Analogie für jene so berühmte Weisheit von der Wahrheit als erstes Opfer jedes Krieges zu lesen. Die Liebe und die Lüge - in den Zeiten des Krieges. Selten zuvor und wie zu erwarten ist, noch seltener nach Margaret Atwood wird man einen Text finden, der diese beiden wohl größten Themen der Literatur derart gekonnt behandelt.
Was es auszusetzen gibt an diesem Buch? Nichts.
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Laugh Out Loud Funny
9. September 2006
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Many readers find that Atwood's writings have too much edge or are just too dark and raw. The same cannot be said about this new feature. Yes, Atwood is the Queen in the Canadian Publishing Industry, and yes she is a good writer, but her stories for many are just not entertaining. I myself am not normally a fan of Margaret Atwood's writings. Yet this book will rock your socks. It is funny, satirical, and a laugh-out-loud tale.
This is a story that most of us know, the story of Odysseus and Penelope. Yet unlike most tellings of this tale, it is told from Penelope's perspective and she has a great vantage point on the whole `Helen' affair. However our story is told from outside of time. There is an old saying that "dead men don't tell tales" and that may be true, but in this inventive retelling, a dead woman and her chorus of dead girls do just that.
Turning this myth on its head by telling it through women's eyes, Atwood has given us a unique view. Maybe she will challenge us to look at our world and our situations through different lenses from time to time.
How do a dead woman and her twelve maids tell a story with a great deal of jest and a smattering of dark humor? How else could a tale be told by 13 dead women from across the river Styx? Penelope gives us some biographical information about herself seldom included in this tale, and it helps us to understand some of her decisions, and her mistakes. Yet the main focus remains Odysseus' long absence during the war against Troy, and his brutal behavior upon his return.
The story is written as a morality play, or in the format of a Greek Tragedy, however it is done with the humor and temperament of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. Our twelve dead maids are our chorus and whenever they appear, laughter will follow; but our laughter is at twelve young women who were hung-tied together, and died, and now in death, still tied together, seek justice upon Odysseus for what he did to them. They appear from time to time, in song, dance, or mock plays and trials, to re-enact events from their lives to punctuate Penelope's story, and thus their own plight in it.
The farce and fun in the way this story is told will make you laugh out loud. Much fun will be had with the ghosts of our 13 dead ladies, if you give this book a try.
This is a story that most of us know, the story of Odysseus and Penelope. Yet unlike most tellings of this tale, it is told from Penelope's perspective and she has a great vantage point on the whole `Helen' affair. However our story is told from outside of time. There is an old saying that "dead men don't tell tales" and that may be true, but in this inventive retelling, a dead woman and her chorus of dead girls do just that.
Turning this myth on its head by telling it through women's eyes, Atwood has given us a unique view. Maybe she will challenge us to look at our world and our situations through different lenses from time to time.
How do a dead woman and her twelve maids tell a story with a great deal of jest and a smattering of dark humor? How else could a tale be told by 13 dead women from across the river Styx? Penelope gives us some biographical information about herself seldom included in this tale, and it helps us to understand some of her decisions, and her mistakes. Yet the main focus remains Odysseus' long absence during the war against Troy, and his brutal behavior upon his return.
The story is written as a morality play, or in the format of a Greek Tragedy, however it is done with the humor and temperament of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. Our twelve dead maids are our chorus and whenever they appear, laughter will follow; but our laughter is at twelve young women who were hung-tied together, and died, and now in death, still tied together, seek justice upon Odysseus for what he did to them. They appear from time to time, in song, dance, or mock plays and trials, to re-enact events from their lives to punctuate Penelope's story, and thus their own plight in it.
The farce and fun in the way this story is told will make you laugh out loud. Much fun will be had with the ghosts of our 13 dead ladies, if you give this book a try.
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A wise, witty, sharply pointed retelling of mythology.
11. März 2007
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In Homer's "Odyssey," why were twelve of Queen Penelope's handmaidens hanged along with Penelope's unsuccessful suitors? In "The Penelopiad," Margaret Atwood endeavors to answer this unsettling question by allowing Penelope herself to relate the tale from beyond the River Styx, with the twelve hanged maidens acting as chorus in alternating chapters. In Atwood's retelling, the answer has a great deal to do with the violent, patriarchal structure of Greek society, along with the character of Penelope's husband Odysseus, the ultimate con man disguised as hero. "I knew he was tricky and a liar, I just didn't think he would play his tricks and try out his lies on me," Penelope says of him. As for Penelope herself, she struggles to keep herself, her son Telemachus and her kingdom of Ithaca intact during her husband's twenty-year absence. This effort includes making covert allies where and when she can, and blinding herself to a great deal. "I wanted happy endings in those days, and happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked and going to sleep during the rampages," she says. The maidens, meanwhile, relate through poetry, sea chantey, courtroom sketch and anthropological lecture their side of the tale, and their undying outrage at having been scapegoated and judicially murdered. Throughout this short book, Atwood demonstrates her renowned mastery of both prose and poetic style, her tart and sometimes biting wit, and--above all--her zealous sympathy for the victims of history, who are just as tragic today as they were in Homer's time.
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A great idea, poorly executed
7. Februar 2008
Format:Taschenbuch
Oh, Margaret Atwood, I love your work, but this was just...inexplicable. I was eagerly anticipating a feminist, or at least Atwood-esque revisionist, retelling of the Odyssey. There were brief glimpses of that in "The Penelopiad," but the promise was unfulfilled. The book--novella, really--felt very incomplete, and not simply because of its length. Atwood normally does an excellent job developing her characters, but here I had no idea who Penelope was by the end of the book. She barely skimmed the surface of the myth, and augmented the skimpy narrative with filler of Penelope's contemporary reflections from the underworld and choral interludes. The chorus is another idea that could have worked, had the story been more cohesive. Instead, just filler. In fact, at multiple moments I had a nagging suspicion that Atwood was playing some kind of literary prank. Is she laughing at the readers trying to figure her out? The conventions of mythology? Should I be laughing with her? Is this clever parody, or is she going senile? Hard to tell. After finishing the book, though, I couldn't help feeling like the joke was on me. I think this is the first of her novels I've actually disliked.
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