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Mason’s task is a bold one. After all, few read Homer??s “Odyssey” with the nagging feeling that something is missing from the story, and the epic is a touchstone for tales of travel and homecoming. As early as the first century BCE, Vergil was borrowing from the Greek epic to tell his own “Aeneid”; Leopold Bloom’s very different wandering in “Ulysses” set the bar almost impossibly high for modern adaptations. Mason’s book, then...
...Mason is himself a bold writer, and “The Lost Books” moves deftly and confidently out of the realm of adaptation into its own imagined ground. His sentences, brawny and lithe, add their own muscle to Homer??s verse. “When he was drunk, Achilles would take his knife and try to pierce his hand, or, if he was very drunk, his heart, and thereby were the delicate blades of many daggers broken,” he writes of the reckless hero...
...exploring the source material’s hidden uncertainties, and exploiting their destabilizing potential, Mason both enlivens and enriches the original text. As a collection of stories, “The Lost Books of the Odyssey,” is an entertaining and enthralling read. Placed in dialogue with Homer??s original, it is a nimbly crafted testament to the power of storytelling...
...times, Mason takes up the epic’s loose ends, giving voice to Homer??s minor characters. The Cyclops, who in Homer??s tale finds himself blinded and beguiled by Odysseus’s wit, tells his own account of the hero’s visit here. As he traces his loss of sight, the Cyclops sheds light on the duplicity of appearance. He says of his offender, “He had not uttered a single true word, of course, but we are all revealed in our lies...
...field. Overall, she’s just been a force. She always leads by example and she has such a presence at bat and behind the plate.”Bock got the action going at the top of the second by blasting the day’s only homer??the fourth of her season and 11th of her career—to right-center to give the Crimson a 1-0 lead. BU overtook Harvard on the scoreboard in the bottom of the third with two scores of its own. With runners on first and second...