<![CDATA[An Iliad]]>

false <![CDATA[An Iliad]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158208294m/1379.jpg 1379 13 A bold reimagining of our civilization’s greatest tale of war, by the author of the acclaimed best seller Silk. Alessandro Baricco re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of twenty-one Homeric characters in the narrative idiom of our modern imagination. Sacrificing none of Homer’s panoramic scope, Baricco forgoes Homeric detachment and admits us to realms of subjective experience his predecessor never explored. From the return of Chryseis to the burial of Hector, we see through human eyes and feel with human hearts the unforgettable events first recounted almost three thousand years ago—events arranged not by the whims of the gods in this instance but by the dictates of human nature. With Andromache, Patroclus, Priam, and the rest, we are privy to the ghastly confusion of battle, the clamor of princely councils, the intimacies of the bedchamber—until finally only a blind poet is left to recount, secondhand, the awful fall of Ilium. Imbuing the stuff of legend with a startling new relevancy and humanity, Baricco gives us The Iliad as we have never known it. His transformative achievement is certain to delight and fascinate all readers of Homer’s indispensable classic. 5540 2005 An Iliad total:157|5:35|4:50|3:41|2:25|1:6| 157 554 234 25 0 0 false false Wed Nov 25 08:33:03 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 08:33:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 14:37:21 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 14:44:23 -0700 2009
As a concept, this is a good ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 13:29:55 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 18:13:59 -0700 2009 Once The Iliad (the epic poem generally acknowledged as one of the greatest works in all literature), strip from it the stylistic quirks that make it so entirel...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 27 16:10:05 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 16:16:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Mar 23 09:10:06 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 09:10:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jan 05 22:24:02 -0800 2009 Mon May 25 22:12:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jun 27 07:49:51 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 07:54:16 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 22:07:56 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 22:21:30 -0700 2008 The Iliad or the fictional (existed?) war between the Greeks and the Trojans, would have been confused with An Iliad. Using article 'An' instead of 'The' does explain something.

Alessandro Baricco wasn't writing a parody over the Homer's poe...more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Nov 10 23:43:52 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 23:45:28 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Sat Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Sep 18 13:44:06 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 17 16:12:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu Feb 08 11:29:07 -0800 2007 Thu Feb 08 11:29:30 -0800 2007 La Ilíada es la guerra en estado puro, una apología de la guerra? Baricco apuntala otra tesis: "Construir otra belleza es tal vez el único camino hacia la paz" Sustituir la atracc...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Feb 28 09:55:28 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 12:42:18 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 09:55:28 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 28 13:09:30 -0800 2008 Sat Apr 26 16:28:41 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Tue Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 02:34:18 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 02:42:01 -0800 2008 an Iliad goes, this is a quick read.

2 star rating? Not that I disliked the book, I just didn't LIKE it either. Perhaps a translation of an interpretation of an ancient poem loses too much for me.]]> 1 0 false false Tue Apr 15 15:34:11 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 20 14:49:42 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sat Nov 03 16:32:31 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 20 19:33:37 -0800 2007 Oh, also, I read this book much too quickly to let it stick with me. ]]> 5 0 false false Fri Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 08:30:50 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 08:34:05 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 08 09:31:24 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 16:07:41 -0700 2007 2 0 false false Sun Sep 21 02:11:44 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 21 02:15:21 -0700 2008 once was enough. 5 0 false false Wed Sep 03 11:26:07 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 11:26:58 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1379