Penelope: the Myth of Penelope and Odysseus
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About This Novel
Margaret Atwood has a lot of titles: Queen of Canadian Literature, winner of the Booker Prize, the Kafka Prize, the German Book Industry Peace Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and other awards, a favorite for the Nobel Prize in Literature, the author of the best-selling books "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Blind Assassin"... Margaret Atwood's talent is as undoubted as her achievements. The same is true of Penelope. It very cleverly uses Penelope, a little girl's autobiography in the underworld, to comprehensively take stock of what she knows about Odysseus, Helen, the Battle of Troy, and the story of Odysseus and Ithaca's revenge. Atwood completely replaced Penelope, the legendary lady, making her feel awkward when dating like an ordinary girl and panicking when teasing her parents-in-law, but also as witty and agile as the legend. She dealt with all the relatives skillfully, and when she met her husband who had been away for many years, she showed her cunning and intelligent character. The humor and irony between the lines made people laugh.
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