Title : Homer, Iliad - Alessandro Baricco - book

Summary :

Sadness is our destiny: but that is why our lives will be sung forever, by all the men who will come." Homer's voice continues to resonate from the depths of the centuries. The Iliad sings of fifty-one days of the last year of a ten-year war that ends with the conquest and destruction of Troy. It sings of gods, men, and heroes, unforgettable in their anger and ambition, audacity and ingenuity, vengeance and pity, prisoners on the borders of an eternal battlefield. Starting from a modern translation, Alessandro Baricco has concentrated and reduced the raw material of the text to twenty-one voices, the last of which, that of the bard Demodocus, tells the story of the end of Troy; Homer's characters are invited onto the stage—the gods left in the background—to tell, with very contemporary accents, their story of passion and blood, their great war, their great adventure.

• EAN : 9782070341337
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