rhia
Halifax
As though in a dream... — 1 year ago
WORTH CONSUMING!
In the Penelopiad, Atwood tackles the other side of the Greek myth of Odysseus.
All of us with some sort of liberal arts education are familiar with his travails, and his triumphant return to his faithful wife, with resultant slaughter of suitors and maidens.
But what did it look like to the women?
Atwood’s done a wealth of research and has pulled together a floaty, feminist account of what might have come to pass. A sympathetic Penelope, a wholly unsympathetic Helen, a life perhaps wasted, loneliness, desire, faithfulness, and jealousy. What is the impact?
Through story and song, Atwood gives us one version. A version I definitely liked.