The Lost Books of the Odyssey is a novel by Zachary Mason, republished in It is a reimagination of Homer's Odyssey.. Mason, who wrote the book while working full-time, won first prize and initial publication in a competition sponsored by Starcherone Books, an independent publisher in Buffalo, New York. The Los Angeles Times reviewed the book, and it became a finalist in the New Cited by: 2. · Bringing an ingenious new approach to the ancient tale of Odysseus, debut novelist Zachary Mason has crafted a mesmerizing work with The Lost Books of the Odyssey. Weaving together precisely drawn vignettes, fragments, and myths, Mason presents a reinvention of Homer's original that offers rich, sometimes contradictory aspects of the timeless characters who have fascinated Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Zachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, reimagines Homer's classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With brilliant prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary skill, Mason creates alternative episodes, fragments, and revisions of Homer's original that taken together open up this classic Greek myth to endless .
It is thus peculiarly suitable to the treatment that Zachary Mason, a California-based computer scientist, gives it in his impressive debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey. Sometimes Mason's variations use a quite different culture's armory: one has Achilles as a golem fashioned by Odysseus. Read in app. By Zachary Mason. Jan. 27, Odysseus comes back to Ithaca in a little boat on a clear day. The familiarity of the east face of the island seems absurd — bemused, he runs a tricky rip current he has not thought about in fifteen years and lands by the mouth of a creek where he swam as. Mason's newly published version of this story, by contrast, takes a post-modernist approach - casual, playful, earthy, and even scatological. At one point in Mason's version of The Lost Books of the Odyssey, Odysseus muses about the fact that "I was ideally suited to be a bard, a profession fit only.
Zachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, reimagines Homer's classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With brilliant prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary skill, Mason creates alternative episodes, fragments, and revisions of Homer's original that taken together open up this classic Greek myth to endless reverberating interpretations. Zachary Mason's "The Lost Books of the Odyssey" is a tour de force for devotees of the classical epics. The premise, delightfully conceived, is that a number of alternative accounts of the Trojan War and Odysseus' ill-fated journey home circulated in the ancient world, and that these tales were denigrated in favor of the official accounts that have been handed down to us in The Iliad and The Odyssey. The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason. Publication Date: January 4, ; Genres: Fiction; Paperback: pages; Publisher: Picador; ISBN ; ISBN
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