Well, having read the Odyssey, I now have more questions than answers. But it is true to say that I really! enjoyed the experience!
And now the Marathon that is;
James Joyce, Ulysses.
I have just managed to finish the Introduction and I found myself reaching for the dictionary almost as much as my reading experience in Italian!
Another case of 'Watch this space!
Questions of Masculinity and the androgynous man.
Irish politics, Shakespeare, References to Tolstoy, Eduoard Dujardin, Samuel Beckett, Jean Paul Sartre, To name but a few!
And of course constant references to W.B. Yeats!
So the questions begin.
Will I recognise the themes , the likenesses of the Odyssey? Will I know when Leopold Bloom is representing Oddyseus and when Stephen Dedalus is portaying Telemachus.
Will I need to research Irish history to understand the story, The Easter rising?
How I remember my visit to Dublin and pointing out the bullet holes on the walls of buildings on O'Connell Street.!
Lets see!
