Word: odyssey
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...thanks, anyway, for all that attention to The Odyssey of the Self-Centered Self...
...ODYSSEY (474 pp.) - Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald -Doubleday...
...Wolf Pack. For those who came in late-a great many people educated at colleges with elective curriculums-The Odyssey is the story of the long voyage home from the Trojan Wars of Odysseus, lord of Ithaca, to be reunited with his wife Penelope and son Telemachus. On the way, he and his men suffered such ordeals as imprisonment by brutish cannibal giants, shipwreck, seduction, famine and feast. Meanwhile, back at the palace, a half-hundred soft civilians squatted on the absent lord's domain, eating and drinking their heads off, seducing the maidservants, insulting the stripling heir...
...make good English of good Greek, or in his words from the poem, to "tell us in our time, lift the great song again." Each generation must do it in its own idiom. If there is missing "like ocean on the Western beach/The surge and thunder of the Odyssey" (in Translator Andrew Lang's phrase), it is because of the tight course Fitzgerald set himself. His aim was to make an easily spoken-verse story in the idiom of today, which is not notable for grandeur, elegance, or even the ceremonious conversational usages of a generation...
...almost natural intervals of a relaxed but eloquent after-dinner entertainer with an unusually good scriptwriter. Doubleday has backed him up with good type and Picasso-style illustrations by Hans Erni. Fitzgerald did not underestimate the staggering intellectual difficulties of Englishing Homer. Literally, the first line of The Odyssey would read in English...