The Penelopiad

When Margaret Atwood announced to her friends that she wanted to be a writer, she was only 16 years old. It was Canada. It was the 1950s. No one knew what to think. Nonetheless, Atwood began her writing career as a poet. Published In 1964 while she was still a student at Harvard, her second poetry anthology, The Circle Game, was awarded the Governor General's Award, one of Canada's most esteemed literary prizes. Since then, Atwood has gone on to publish many more volumes of poetry (as well as literary criticism, essays, and short stories), but it is her novels for which she is best known..Atwood's first foray into fiction was 1966's The Edible Woman, an arresting story about a woman who stops eating because she feels her life is consuming her. Grabbing the attention of critics, who applauded its startlingly original premise, the novel explored feminist themes Atwood has revisited time and time again during her long, prolific literary career. She is famous for strong, compelling female protagonists -- from the breast cancer survivor in Bodily Harm to the rueful artist in Cat's Eye to the fatefully intertwined sisters in her Booker Prize-winning novel The Blind Asassin..Perhaps Atwood's most legendary character is Offred, the tragic "breeder" in what is arguably her most famous book, 1985's The Handmaid's Tale. Part fable, part science fiction, and part dystopian nightmare, this novel presented a harrowing vision of women's lives in an oppressive futuristic society. The Washington Post compared it (favorably) to George Orwell's iconic 1984..As if her status as a multi-award-winning, triple-threat writer (fiction, poetry, and essays) were not enough, Atwood has also produced several children's books, including Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (1995) and Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes (2003) -- delicious alliterative delights that introduce a wealth of new vocabulary to young readers.

出版者:Canongate U.S.

作者:Margaret Atwood

页数:199

出版时间:2006-09-14

价格:US$13.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781841957982

图书标签:加拿大小说女性MythGreek史诗

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In Homer’s account in The Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the ages. Left alone for twenty years when Odysseus goes off to fight in the Trojan war after the abduction of Helen, Penelope manages, in the face of scandalous rumours, to maintain the kingdom of Ithaca, bring up her wayward son, and keep over a hundred suitors at bay, simultaneously. When Odysseus finally comes home after enduring hardships, overcoming monsters and sleeping with goddesses, he kills her suitors and - curiously - twelve of her maids.

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In a splendid contemporary twist to the ancient story, Margaret Atwood has chosen to give the telling of it to Penelope and to her twelve hanged Maids, asking: "What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to?" In Atwood’s dazzling, playful retelling, the story becomes as wise and compassionate as it is haunting, and as wildly entertaining as it is disturbing. With wit and verve, drawing on the storytelling and poetic talent for which she herself is renowned, she gives Penelope new life and reality - and sets out to provide an answer to an ancient mystery.

读后感

“我已是死人，因而无所不知。”曾获得布克奖的加拿大作家玛格丽特·阿特伍德的新书这样开头。别误会，这并不是又一本阿特伍德式的反乌托邦小说，而是英国坎农格特出版公司(Canongate)发起的“重述神话”出版计划中的一本。他们邀请了包括翁贝托·艾柯、若泽·萨拉马戈、托妮...  

我不知道有多少人在看古神话的看得直接睡过去。 像我这样一个长久以来对神秘事物追求孜孜不倦但又总是停留在表面层次的人而言，有过N次看古罗马神话又或者古希腊神话时被里面的人名和人物关系纠缠得头昏脑涨然后直挺挺睡过去的经历。 我到现在还记得那本日本的《古事记》，不知...  

虽然阿特伍德以用词洗练，如同老练的家庭主妇切分感恩节火鸡一样，可是这本书读着就像一个聪明无处用的主妇的无日无夜的腹黑。 重写的佩妮洛普故事很知识分子，表现一：综合了荷马史诗和Robert Graves的希腊神话企鹅版中的内容，讲述了佩妮洛普出嫁之前的故事，暗示了各种谣言...  

我不知道有多少人在看古神话的看得直接睡过去。 像我这样一个长久以来对神秘事物追求孜孜不倦但又总是停留在表面层次的人而言，有过N次看古罗马神话又或者古希腊神话时被里面的人名和人物关系纠缠得头昏脑涨然后直挺挺睡过去的经历。 我到现在还记得那本日本的《古事记》，不知...  

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看《奥德赛》的愤愤不平在看到本书奥德修斯即使逃到天涯海角也无法摆脱复仇的结局后有所缓解。古代的英雄史诗换一个女性角色视角解读会异常有趣。感谢我的文学教授Ellen Rentz女士。