quarta-feira, 14 de setembro de 2011

Ragnarok: The End of the Gods

Título: Ragnarok:The End of the Gods
Autora: A. S. Byatt
Ano: 2012


Recently evacuated to the British countryside and with World War Two raging around her, one young girl is struggling to make sense of her life. Then she is given a book of ancient Norse legends and her inner and outer worlds are transformed. Intensely autobiographical and linguistically stunning, this book is a landmark work of fiction from one of Britain's truly great writers. Intensely timely it is a book about how stories can give us the courage to face our own demise. The Ragnarok myth, otherwise known as the Twilight of the Gods, plays out the endgame of Norse mythology. It is the myth in which the gods Odin, Freya and Thor die, the sun and moon are swallowed by the wolf Fenrir, the serpent Midgard eats his own tail as he crushes the world and the seas boil with poison. It is only after such monstrous death and destruction that the world can begin anew. This epic struggle provided the fitting climax to Wagner's Ring Cycle and just as Wagner was inspired by Norse myth so Byatt has taken this remarkable finale and used it as the underpinning of this highly personal and politically charged retelling.

"Ragnarok is clever, lucid, lovely book. But is isn't a novel, or even a stroty in the usual sense. It's a discourse on myth, woven in and around a polemic about pollution and loss of species diversity..."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/sep/09/ragnarok-as-byatt-review

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