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Bezig met laden... Circe (origineel 2018; editie 2020)door Madeline Miller (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Wat een ellende zeg dit. 1,5 ster. ( ) Ontmoet Circe, Odysseus, Athena, Helios, Penelope,Telemachus, de Minotauros, het kind Icarus, Scilla... wezens van vlees en bloed. Odysseus: listig en zonder mededogen, ontgoocheld, gestrand op zijn eiland; Athena de volmaakte godin maar koud als ijs; Helios, de schitterende zonnegod, narcistisch door de tijd glijdend; Penelope, de perfecte zwemster en weefster; Daedalus met de gouden handen, Circe met de mensenstem en meer dan dat. Na de betovering van de Griekse mythologie op de schoolbanken en ver daarna, een volwassen onderdompeling in de wereld van nimfen, najaden, halfgoden, titanen en Olympiërs. Een pracht van een wereld, een geschenk van Homeros en Madeline Miller!
“Circe” will surely delight readers new to the witch’s stories as it will many who remember her role in the Greek myths of their childhood: Like a good children’s book, it engrosses and races along at a clip, eliciting excitement and emotion along the way. Miller has taken the familiar materials of character, and wrought some satisfying turns of her own. [W]hat elevates Circe is Miller’s luminous prose, which is both enormously readable and evocative, and the way in which she depicts the gulf between gods and mortals. Written in prose that ripples with a gleaming hyperbole befitting the epic nature of the source material, there is nothing inaccessible or antiquated about either Circe or her adventures. The character of Circe only occupies a few dozen lines of [the Odyssey], but Miller extracts worlds of meaning from Homer's short phrases. Is opgenomen inBevatIs een hervertelling vanPrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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