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“Article continues after advertisement At its heart, The Odyssey is a quest narrative.”
“Back home, his wife Penelope wonders: Is Odysseus alive?”
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“We also live in a literary world rich with retellings of Homer (just look to Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad , Madeline Miller’s Circe , Claire North’s The Songs of Penelope ).”
“Ballantine Books Craft Advice Homer Mary Helen Specht Mudlark Penguin Random House Random House Retellings The Odyssey Mary Helen Specht Mary Helen Specht is the author of Migratory Animals , a New York Times Editors’ Choice and winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Best First Fiction Award and the Writers’ League of Texas Fiction Prize.”
“Will he ever return?”
“Her writing has appeared in The New York Times , Prairie Schooner , and numerous other publications.”
“____________________________ Mudlark by Mary Helen Specht is available from Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.”
“A Fulbright Scholar to Nigeria and Dobie-Paisano Writing Fellow, Specht currently teaches creative writing at St.”
“Each age sees metaphors of their own struggles in these ancient texts.”
“We are like Penelope, unraveling Homer’s tale for our own purposes.”
“Here, the dead speak the truth, but only if you first feed them blood from the living.”
“I didn’t set out to incorporate a retelling of The Odyssey into my second novel Mudlark .”
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“I dipped back into The Odyssey when Emily Wilson’s translation came out in 2017—in the 60-plus translations into English, hers is the first by a woman—and then I couldn’t unsee it everywhere I looked, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Mad Max: Fury Road.”
“At some point in my recent re-reading of the tale, I began to wonder: Does Penelope even want him to return?”
“While we know The Odyssey was written down between the late eighth and late seventh century BCE, we also know that it was part of an oral tradition for hundreds of years before that.”
“Emily Wilson makes the claim that Penelope’s dominant characteristic in the poem is her “opacity,” how little we really know about her mind or desires.”