Gather Homers The Iliad And The Odyssey: A Biography By Alberto Manguel Accessible In File

had een autobiografie verwacht zoals het boek omschreven wordt maar het ging meer over alle receptie gebaseerd op en in vergelijking met de Ilias en Odyssee.
Ook interessant, maar was te zeer van slag dit ineens te kunnen lezen, Daarbij spraken de behandelde werken me niet zo aan omdat ik er nog niet veel van had gelezen, Auteur heeft verder wel goed onderzoek gedaan, Korte, duidelijke hoofdstukken met een hoge informatiedichtheid, WAY over my head! This is a pretty interesting book but more along the lines of a survey than an indepty approach to theepic poems.
It's more of a history of the perceptions of the poems within the various cultural contexts since the classical age, and the influences on the art and literature of those ages.
Most of it's convincing. Some of the influences he explains seem a reach, that on Dante, for instance, I particularly enjoyed the chapter devoted to Homer's influence on Virgil, seriously tempting me, at last, to read The Aeneid, So that's in my future, And the chapter explaining how Iliad can be seen as the story of all wars and all men at war I thought especially fine, Tradução de Manuel Odorico Mendes I started this book as a supplement to a writing project I'm working on, however about halfway through I realized it wasn't quite what I needed.
Still, it was an interesting read, A great general source book for those interested in the two great books of literature, Mangual has a keen observation, Wondrous.
Yes, you should read The Iliad and also read The Odyssey before you read this, You should also care about them, and about literature, history, meaning, . . No one knows if there was a man named Homer, but there is no little doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name form the cornerstone of Western literature.
The Iliad and The Odyssey, with their incomparable tales of the Trojan War, brace Achilles, Ulysses and

Penelope, the Cyclops, the beautiful Helen of Troy, and the petulant gods, are familiar to most readers because they are so pervasive.
They have fed our imagination for over two and a half millennia, inspiring everyone from Plato to Virgil, Pope to Joyce, Dante to Wolfgang Petersen, In this graceful and sweeping addition to the Books that Change the World Series, Alberto Manguel traces the lineage of the epic poems, He considers their original purpose, either as allegory or record of history, surveys the challenges the pagan poems presented to the early Christian world, and traces their spread after the Reformation.
Following Homer through the greatest literature ever created, Manguels book above all delights in the poems themselves, the “primordial spring without which there would have been no culture.
” Manguel offers a string of colorful tidbits and learned allusions rather than historiographical arguments, Parto confesando que no he leído la Ilíada ni la Odisea y fuera del hecho de que ambos relatos nacieron de una tradición oral, sabía muy poco de la influencia concreta de Homero en la historia de la literatura y la religión.
Me imagino que para un académico este libro se queda corto, pero para una mortal como yo es un disfrute absoluto, Me sentía en una clase con el mejor de los maestros, Por un lado, me parece que el estilo de escritura de Manguel es muy bello, Por otro, me gustó la selección de temas y referencias que hizo para contar todas las dimensiones de Homero: existió o no Habría sido hombre o mujer Cómo lo retomaron los romanos para justificar el nacimiento del imperio De qué le sirvió al catolicismo y al islam Y los autores Dante, Virgilio, Nietszche, Goethe, Joyce, todos están ahí y cada uno lo retoma a su manera.
Además de esto, me conmovió mucho cómo transmite la universalidad de los temas de ambos relatos, cómo deja ver que las tristezas y pasiones de los hombres son infinitas.
Subrayé mucho en el libro, pero quizá esta fue una de mis líneas favoritas: “Es sorprendente que, en una lengua que ya no sabemos cómo pronunciar, un poeta o varios poetas cuyos rostros y caracteres no podemos concebir, que vivieron en una sociedad acerca de cuyas costumbres y creencias no tenemos sino una vaga idea, describan nuestras vidas de hoy con sus alegrías secretas y sus pecados ocultos”.

Es una gran colección de ensayos, Relaciona a través de la naturaleza humana la literatura griega clásica y otras modernas principalmente la inglesa para demostrar que la Ilíada y la Odisea están tan vigentes entre nosotros cómo lo estuvieron para los antiguos griegos.
Over the years, people have nitpicked over every aspect of the Homeric epics, they've found more meaning than is actually there, and less, they've exalted it beyond all reason and vilified it for poor reasons.
Others have entered into a dialogue with it, remaking it and using it as the inspiration for fresh works of their own, Manguel ably guides us through the various strands of western philosophy, scholarship and literature, A book about the reception of the sitelinkIliad and the sitelinkOdyssey, from the mighty trunk run branches, and from the branches twigs, One feels the tree wants a vigorous pruning, perhaps to raise the crown and reduce the canopy by half or so, The opinions of Byron and Blake on the translations of the Iliad and Odyssey by Alexander Pope who cares A chapter on Homer in medieval Islam in which the only interesting thing that is said is that there was no medieval translation of Homer into Arabic Ditto a chapter on 'Christian' Homer which is about saints Jerome and Augustine having their cake and eat it being both Christian and finding a place generally for pagan literature, with nothing specific to say about Homer, within the new religion

Manguel here can be interesting, but when we have C.
G. Jung responding to Freud, who is responding to Neitzsche, who was writing in response to Goethe, who was commenting upon F, A. Wolf, who had been studying Homer, one notices that one is a fair distance away from either the Iliad or the Odyssey,

I guess I might have liked this more if I hadn't read it in relation to the sitelinkgroup read of the Odyssey, However that is where I was, and so my reading was purposive, I wanted insight into the Odyssey, an interesting thought on the Iliad would be a bonus, However that is not the intention of the book, which instead I will say with respect in my heart is the outpouring of a demented librarian who claims that a golden thread runs through all the books in the library collection.


Manguel almost starts with the idea that Iliad embodies the metaphor that life is war, while the Odyssey says life is a journey, as such, one might say that these are not books that shook the world but are the fathers and mothers of a great slice of literature, the struggle and the journey seemingly without end crossbreeding and bringing forth new monsters, one imagines taking fright at the number of authors springing forth from Homer's loins, it would be an austerely slim volume that was about the writers unaffected by either the Iliad, the Odyssey, or their characters, or techniques.


Typical of the differences between myself and Manguel was that my spirit lifted when twice he mentioned Milman Parry's work among the traditional singers of the former Yugoslavia and yet how for Manguel, those were throw away digressions that didn't merit there own chapter.
My desire for a pseudo biography of Iliad and Odyssey looking at the construction and transmission of traditional oral epics, the 'fixing' of Iliad and Odyssey inth century BC Athens, the written version produced in Ptlomenian Alexandria, the manuscript tradition down to the earliest print editions was not satisfied, such poor concerns don't enter into Manguel's vision.
Which is of the literary response to Homer,

But he was interesting too in Samuel Butler's assertion of the Odyssey as written by a Sicilian woman naively I had assumed that there was a positive basis for Butler's theory, in fact the justification a negative one the mistakes he found in the work such as a ship having two rudders and a bird of prey pulling a smaller bird apart in mid air ones he felt impossible for a man to make and therefore the Odyssey in his view could only have been composed by a woman, I feel there is a point here about the audience too since despite such mistakes the work thrived and came to be seen as the paramount literary monument of ancient Greece.
he sees a counter balance to the philologists, The philologists implicitly say that the works of Homer can by understood only through study and analysis and deconstruction, Butler says anybody can punt their own theory, roll up, roll up and 'ave a go Sir Madam For Goethe the work of literary understanding as practised by the philologists would lead to the questioning of all received authority, first Homer then the Bible.
The flight then to wayward individual reinterpretation something like a remystification of the world, Legend gives birth to legend, the sleep of reason brings forth sitelinkmonsters, but for once everyone is happy, well almost, Brilliant. An absolute stunner of scholarship, It is meant to be a rabbithole, and damn yes it is, You will be attached to the Western canon post this, forever, Alberto Manguel stelt nooit teleur en slaagt erin op begeesterde wijze in deze bespreking van het naleven van de Ilias en Odyssee door verschillende eeuwen heen de lezer op sleeptouw te nemen.
Zijn eruditie is indrukwekkend en zijn bronnenkeuze is uitstekend, Liefhebbers van de klassieke oudheid, cultuurof literatuurgeschiedenis zouden zich verplicht moeten voelen dit boek in hun bezit te hebben, “El legado de Homero” parece una de esas clases que los maestros llevan a sus estudiantes con el esmero que motiva la pasión, el rigor y el cariño.
El resultado es un trabajo memorable e inspirador,

Manguel ha escrito un libro inspirado en la misteriosa existencia de Homero, cuya genialidad parece proyectarse en la “Iliada” y la “Odisea”, dos semillas poderosas de las que emerge la narrativa universal, desde las “Mil noches y una noches”, pasando por Goethe, Borges y llegando hasta el “Ulises” de Joyce.


La escritura de Alberto Manguel tiene la facultad de actualizar un autor que, por milenario y y desconocido, habría desaparecido en el anonimato absoluto de no ser por sus lectores.
Pero el argentino se convierte en un Virgilio que lleva al lector por los círculos de interpretación que tanto la “Iliada” y la “Odisea” han motivado para convertirse en clásicos ineludibles de la literatura, el pensamiento y la cultura universal.

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