Nina MacLaughlin
Auteur de Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung
Œuvres de Nina MacLaughlin
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
Vous aimerez peut-être aussi
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 5
- Membres
- 428
- Popularité
- #57,056
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 18
- ISBN
- 15
- Langues
- 2
Fair warning: this is often a difficult read due to its explicit handling of sexual violence (given the source material, however, and the project undertaken by Wake, Siren, that was not a surprise for me) and MacLaughlin's prose is experimental, so if that isn't your bag, you may not enjoy this. That said, I appreciated MacLaughlin's style choices, as her beautiful, haunting prose, for me, comes the closest of any classics reimagining that I have read to truly capturing the primal, dreamlike experience of reading the ancients and Ovid in particular.
Some of the tales are stronger than others, but, on the whole, I found Wake, Siren a powerful collection performing interesting and important cultural work by reorienting the perspectives of many of the ravishings of The Metamorphoses (which several of Wake, Siren's heroines point out have been troublingly romanticized by Western culture for centuries) from the perspective of those brutalized by husbands, fathers, and the ever-capricious gods.
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.… (plus d'informations)