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Work InformationIago by David Snodin
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No current Talk conversations about this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To get at an answer, Snodin must first tackle Iago's final declaration in Othello that he will remain silent. Snodin first has Iago escape from the authorities in Cyprus, but this allows him to remain silent. He ends up in the hands of the Inquisitors in Venice, but he maintains his stubborn silence. Snodin finally begins to open Iago by introducing a main plot involving a young, Venitian noble. Gentile Stornello is a teenager who gets pulled into a plot get at Iago's motivation by getting close to him and helping him escape from Venice. All of this takes too long to happen, and as a result, a book that wants to be a historical thriller gets bogged down. It doesn't help that Gentile, the main character, comes across more as a mooning kid than an interesting young man. The book picks up pace in the final 100 pages, but it isn't enough to bring this book to a strong conclusion. Once we get an inkling of Iago's motivations, it's a bit of a letdown. ![]()
A lack of confidence can be endearing, but this book’s key weaknesses are visible on its first page. A work deserves adaptation when an author believes that he can successfully rework it for some additional benefit. Snodin’s attempt lacks, first and foremost, the effort to connect the new tale with the old. The most profound themes of Othello are muddled and lost, while the only intentional changes to the text seem to be linguistic. Was inspired by
Having escaped from Cyprus, accused of the murders of the governor, known as the Moor, and his lovely young wife, Iago is now locked in battle with Annibale Malipiero, known as Il Terribile, the chief inquisitor of Italy's greatest city. Is Iago a lone psychopath, or does he lie at the heart of a more widespread Ottoman conspiracy? No library descriptions found. |
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![]() GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.92Literature English English fiction Modern Period 2000-LC ClassificationRatingAverage:![]()
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