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Loading... Cold Calls: War Music Continued (2005)by Christopher Logue
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. OK I can't review it because I haven't read it yet, I hadn't heard of it, but I'm ordering it tomorrow. Logue is, in some sense, Odysseus. ( ) More of Logue's retelling of Homer's The Iliad. Written in the same tenor as All Day Permanent Red. Battle and carnage the focus, human hubris the sub-text. The verse is as compelling as any in this series, the imagery remains haunting. I find myself compelled to turn back and re-read over and over, so successful are Logue's words in breathing life back into an epic. A poetic retelling of Homer which made me realise for the first time what an extraordinary story teller the Greek was. I've read lots of translations of the Illiad. Now, having read Logue's translation, I finally "get it". Logue is not exactly linear in his translation work; I'm hoping he'll fill in the gaps and publish as a single volume soon. no reviews | add a review
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Helen, the world's most beautiful woman, the wife of Lord Menelaos of Sparta, left Greece in the company of Paris, the son of Priam, King of Troy. To repossess her, a thousand Greek ships sailed to Troy. Nine years have passed. The Greeks have not achieved their aim. Indeed, after a quarrel between Achilles their leader and Agamemnon their king, the Trojans, led by Paris's brother, Prince Hector, have driven the Greeks off the plain of Troy and back behind the palisade protecting their ships. Achilles refuses to help them. It is night . . .The scene is set for Cold Calls, the fifth and penultimate instalment of Logue's Homer, an ongoing project - a piece of performance-art for the page rather than the stage - which has taken several decades to unfold, and has been described by Derek Mahon as 'Less a translation than an adaptation. Less an adaptation, in fact, than an original poem of considerable power.' No library descriptions found. |
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