The Penelopiad

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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
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页数:199
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出版时间:2006-09-14
价格:US$13.00
装帧:Paperback
isbn号码:9781841957982
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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.

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《珀涅罗珀记》书评 她们是一群花样年华的少女,十二位天真的女孩,以俏脸蛋儿墨兰托为首的十二个姑娘。她们本该纯真无邪,却因为奴隶的身份不得不撩起青涩的裙子忍受王公贵族的侮辱。读完这本经典神话的重现,我被书本的戏剧性的创作形式所吸引。全书的主人公珀涅罗珀...  

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Yesterday we had our midterm on CORE 151, and one of the questions was on this book. Prof. Cushing asked us to talk about two female foils that helped us to understand Penelope. It was easy to pick two characters, and I chose the twelve maids as well as Hel...  

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Today we finished the discussion about this book. The book is still a little opaque to me, but things are coming together. - Prof. Cushing said that the story of Odyssey showed that pagan goddesses were overthrown by Greek pantheism. Gender is portrayed i...  

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“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...  

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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。

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