Fr: Uwe Neumahr über die „Buchhandlung der Exilanten“ – Als Hemingway eine Buchhandlung stürmte
Uwe Neumahr über die „Buchhandlung der Exilanten“ – Als Hemingway eine Buchhandlung stürmte
Uwe Neumahr hat die faszinierende Geschichte zweier Buchhändlerinnen in Paris gehoben, die das geistige Leben der Seine-Metropole zwischen den Kriegen prägten. Am 16. September 1942 war Ernst Jünger ...
Christian Science Monitor: 'Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life' is a biography that includes a large element of the absurd
'Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life' is a biography that includes a large element of the absurd
Penelope was the wife of the hero Odysseus, ruler of the small island of Ithaca. She remained faithful to her husband for twenty years while awaiting his return from the Trojan War, holding off many suitors with her cunning.
Argument Euryclea awakens Penelope with the news of Ulysses’ return, and the death of the suitors. Penelope scarcely credits her; but supposes some god has punished them, and descends from her department in doubt. At the first interview of Ulysses and Penelope, she is quite unsatisfied. Minerva restores him to the beauty of his youth; but the queen continues incredulous, till by some ...
To bring Penelope the wish’d-for news, That thou, safe sailing from the Pylian strand, Art come to bless her in thy native land.” Thus spoke the goddess, and resumed her flight To the pure regions of eternal light, Meanwhile Pisistratus he gently shakes, And with these words the slumbering youth awakes: “Rise, son of Nestor; for the road ...
Ulysses’ Revenge on Penelope’s Suitors by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1814) The Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen Public Domain Laertes in the Odyssey The most familiar portrait of Laertes comes from Homer’s Odyssey, an epic poem narrating Odysseus’ adventures on his voyage home to Ithaca.