The fall of Troy: a novel
It is Peter Ackroyd's remarkable achievement, in this complex and fascinating novel, to take a figure who was already a legend in his own lifetime, and recreate him as a creature of myth; indeed, an epic hero, able to shape truth to his vision, to call on the powers of the gods still residing a...
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| Summary: | It is Peter Ackroyd's remarkable achievement, in this complex and fascinating novel, to take a figure who was already a legend in his own lifetime, and recreate him as a creature of myth; indeed, an epic hero, able to shape truth to his vision, to call on the powers of the gods still residing among the ruins of the city. His Heinrich Obermann - a name for a demigod - has one unswerving goal: all his being is concentrated on demonstrating to the world, in the teeth of general opinion to the contrary, that Homer's account of the Trojan war is a true relation of events and that the Trojan warriors were Europeans, not Asians, and of noble race. This quest - to establish the truth of what has been thought of as fable - is the central element in an intricate pattern that runs through the novel, managed by Ackroyd with great skill: a pattern of ambiguities, where opposed concepts cross their borderlines and interweave, truth merging with invention, fable with fact, the rational with the visionary. Obermann is dangerous in his passionate convictions, perhaps even capable of murder. |
| Physical Description: | 215 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780701179113 0701179112 |
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