Penelopeja: Mit o Penelopi i Odiseju
Rare book

Penelopeja: Mit o Penelopi i Odiseju

Margaret Atwood

Great... Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale and Testimony, is fearlessly sarcastic! This novel is as powerful as a curse!

Penelope. Immortalized in legend and myth as the faithful wife of the famous Odysseus who silently weaves, unravels and weaves again while awaiting her husband's return. In Margaret Atwood's short novel, Penelope wanders through the underworld and spins a different yarn: her side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and murder. It is an excellent story about Penelope's twenty years of waiting, two decades of rejecting suitors, ruling the country, managing the household and raising her son.

Penelope is a unique, fun and challenging variation on a myth we only thought we knew. Although this short novel will appeal to readers who do not know the details of Homer's more famous story, the two versions enhance each other in many ways. The sensitive and humane portrait of Penelope will inspire many readers to look again at Homer's Odyssey with greater pleasure because, as we know, myths are universal and eternal stories in which our lives are mirrored and shaped - they explore our desires, fears and longings and offer us narratives that remind us what it means to be human.

Original title
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus
Translation
Giga Gračan, Dora Maček
Editor
Maja Šoljan
Graphics design
Boris Runjić
Dimensions
20 x 13 cm
Pages
154
Publisher
Vuković & Runjić, Zagreb, 2005.
 
Latin alphabet. Paperback with dust jacket.
Language: Croatian.
ISBN
978-9-53679-172-9

One copy is available

Condition:Used, excellent condition
 

Are you interested in another book? You can search the offer using our search engine or browse books by category.

You may also be interested in these titles

Gazela i Kosac

Gazela i Kosac

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood described the novel as speculative fiction and adventure romance rather than pure science fiction, as it does not deal with things that "we cannot yet do or begin to do", but it goes beyond the amount of realism she associates with the nov

Profil Internacional, 2003.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
10.76
Jarčeva obratnica

Jarčeva obratnica

Henry Miller

Tropic of Capricorn is another legendary erotic novel by Henry Miller, published in 1938. Due to the inserted philosophy, it is somewhat difficult to understand. In this work, Henry is in Paris, but he actually remembers his childhood in New York.

Otokar Keršovani, 1978.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
46.22 (set)
Proročanstvo Romanovima

Proročanstvo Romanovima

Steve Berry

Steve Berry is one of the best-selling contemporary authors of thrillers, whose works have been published in more than forty countries, in forty-one world languages, and have been on the bestseller lists around the world for months.

VBZ, 2010.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
6.58
Vašar taštine, sv. 1-2

Vašar taštine, sv. 1-2

William Makepeace Thackeray

The pinnacle of Thackeray's creativity and his most famous novel, imbued with elegant sarcasm that at times turns into fierce irony, Vašar taštine proudly takes its place among the masterpieces of world literature.

Logos, 1984.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
The book consists of two volumes
9.96
Pod suncem Toskane

Pod suncem Toskane

Frances Mayes

Under the Tuscan Sun is a 1996 memoir by the American writer Frances Mayes. It was adapted by director Audrey Wells for the 2003 film Under the Tuscan Sun.

Algoritam, 2004.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
5.24
Rastureni dom

Rastureni dom

Pearl S. Buck
Rad, 1971.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
3.90 - 3.99