Telemachos (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought Translation Series)

Telemachos (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought Translation Series)





Köhlmeier's novel weaves together in highly original fashion two different literary traditions: Homeric epic and the German 'Bildungsroman' or developmental novel. Its action rests on a framework suggested by Books One to Four of the Odyssey, the section called the Telemachy. This is the basis for a novel of universal proportions, spanning Western history from its origins as described in Greek creation myth to the present day. -- Modern Telemachos, son of Odysseus, is here a normal, intelligent sensitive youth with a girlfriend, an uneasy relationship with his mother Penelope, and the uncomfortable burden of responsibility to the inheritance of a heroic father. The goddess Athene has little success in her efforts to transform him into a warrior hero. Her efforts founder on his modern, very human sensibility.









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