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Lavinia.
de LE GUIN, Ursula K
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Orlando, Florida: Harcourt, Inc.,, 2008. First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Gwen, Katie, and Eric, with all good wishes - Ursula K. Le Guin, April 2008". Le Guin's Locus Award-winning feminist novel gives voice and agency to a famously silent but central character from the Aeneid, Lavinia, allowing her story to continue from Virgil's conclusion. This work is an early example of a flourishing literary movement in which myths are recentred around the female perspective: "Atwood, Elyot, and Le Guin were instrumental in carving out space for women in both Greek mythology and popular culture... The Penelopiad, Lavinia, and The Memoirs of Helen of Troy were the first retellings that unequivocally focused on women in the ancient world. They gave voices to strong women who previously lacked any agency and only existed as part of a man's story" (Mactaggart). Such works have emerged alongside modern editions of classical myths done into English for the first time by female translators, such as Emily Wilson's impactful 2017 translation of the Odyssey. Octavo. Original reddish-brown paper-backed cream boards, spine lettered in gilt, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Slight bumps to lightly sunned spine ends, a near-fine copy in like jacket, spine sunned, tiny crease to foot. Catriona Mactaggart, "How Greek Mythology Is Being Rewritten Through A Feminist Lens", The Indiependent, 1 June 2021.
Sinopsis
In a richly imagined, beautiful new novel, an acclaimed writer gives an epic heroine her voice In The Aeneid, Vergil’s hero fights to claim the king’s daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills. Lavinia grows up knowing nothing but peace and freedom, until suitors come. Her mother wants her to marry handsome, ambitious Turnus. But omens and prophecies spoken by the sacred springs say she must marry a foreigner—that she will be the cause of a bitter war—and that her husband will not live long. When a fleet of Trojan ships sails up the Tiber, Lavinia decides to take her destiny into her own hands. And so she tells us what Vergil did not: the story of her life, and of the love of her life. Lavinia is a book of passion and war, generous and austerely beautiful, from a writer working at the height of her powers.
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El Jul 18 2017, un lector dijo:
This may be the first book of fiction I've ever read in which the afterword provided as much pleasure as the novel itself. The afterword to Lavinia gives the reader insights into the patience and careful scholarship that is required of a gifted writer who chooses to write a story based on a minor character in a major world epic. Lavinia is scantily drawn in Vergil's Aeneid, and the world she inhabited is one that is still shrouded in the mists of the past. From the first pages of the novel the reader is given to understand that while Lavinia is the creation of "The Poet," the details of her life are given substance by Lavinia herself. As the third wife of Aeneas and the mother of his second son, Silvius, Lavinia, at least in Le Guin's tale, is the loving daughter of Latinus, content to be the keeper of his Lares and Penates. But she is destined to bring about warfare when she and her father rebuff the suit of her mother's nephew because of the poet's words the poet in a vision at the sacred springs. The story is told in language that is poetic by an author who is as skilled in recreating an ancient world as she is in creating a new one. Once the reader is finished reading this novel and its afterword by the author, he or she will almost certainly head to the shelves to dust off The Aeneid to give it a re-reading.
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- Lavinia.
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- LE GUIN, Ursula K
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- Orlando, Florida: Harcourt, Inc.,
- Fecha de publicación
- 2008
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Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Gilt
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