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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