The Lost Books of the Odyssey
The Lost Books of the Odyssey[1] is a 2007 novel by Zachary Mason, republished in 2010. It is a reimagination of Homer's Odyssey.
Mason, who wrote the book while working full-time, won first prize and initial publication in a 2007 competition sponsored by Starcherone Books, an independent publisher in Buffalo, New York.[2] The Los Angeles Times reviewed the book,[3] and it became a finalist in the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction competition in 2009.[2][4] The book garnered additional positive reviews upon re-publication with Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.[5][6]
Jonathan Galassi, president of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, noticed the book and worked with Mason to craft a second edition of the book, reducing its length and making other modifications to the content.[2] The result was more widely reviewed to acclaim.[7][8]
Plot
A series of short stories following the general theme of Odysseus, discussing fragments from the Iliad and the Odyssey, changing narrator and subject on very regular occasion for a total of 44 fragments.
References
- ^ Mason, Zachary (2010). The Lost Books of the Odyssey. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-19215-0.
- ^ a b c Rohter, Larry (February 9, 2010). "A Calculus of Writing, Applied to a Classic". The New York Times. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
- ^ "Get lost!". Los Angeles Times. March 16, 2008.
- ^ Gaffney, Adrienne (March 17, 2009). "Disproving the Notion That Kids These Days Only Write in Tweets". Vanity Fair. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
- ^ "Fiction Books Reviews: 9/28/2009". Publishers Weekly. September 28, 2009. Archived from the original on January 3, 2010. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
- ^ "Macmillan: The Lost Books of the Odyssey: A Novel Zachary Mason: Books". Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
- ^ Kakutani, Michiko (January 27, 2010). "Odysseus Engages in Spin, Heroically". The New York Times. Retrieved January 10, 2010.
- ^ Alter, Alexandra (February 5, 2010). "Reimagining Homer's Odyssey". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
- v
- t
- e
| |||||||||||
Odyssean gods |
---|
- L'Odissea (1911 Italian)
- Ulysses (1954 Italian)
- The Return of Ringo (1965 Italian)
- Nostos: The Return (1989 Italian)
- Ulysses' Gaze (1995 Greek)
- Sans plomb (2000 French)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
- Keyhole (2012)
- The Return (2024)
- The Odyssey (1968)
- Ulysses 31 (1981)
- The Odyssey (1997)
- Mission Odyssey (2002-2003)
- Odysseus and the Isle of the Mists (2007)
- Star Trek: Odyssey (2007)
- A True Story (2nd century AD)
- Les Aventures de Télémaque (1699)
- The World's Desire (1890)
- Ulysses (1922)
- The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (1938)
- The Human Comedy (1943)
- Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions (1998)
- Trojan Odyssey (2003)
- The Penelopiad (2005)
- The Lost Books of the Odyssey (2010)
- Circe (2018)
- "Ulysses" (1842)
- The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (1938)
- The Cantos (1962)
- Pagan Operetta (1998)
- Current Nobody (play)
- Cyclops (play)
- Ithaka (play)
- Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (opera)
- The Golden Apple (musical)
- Glam Slam Ulysses (musical)
- Home Sweet Homer (musical)
- Odysseus, Verbrecher (play)
- Penelope (play)
- "Tales of Brave Ulysses" (song)
- "The Odyssey" (song)
- Jar with Odysseus and Elpenor (c. 440 B.C.)
- Odysseus on the Island of the Phaecians (c. 1635)
- Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso (1782)
- The Sorrow of Telemachus (1783)
- Odysseus at the Court of Alcinous (1816)
- The Apotheosis of Homer (1827)
- Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus (1829)
- The Sirens and Ulysses (1837)
- Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses (1891)
- Ulysses and the Sirens (1891)
- Odysseus and Polyphemus (1896)
- Ulysses and the Sirens (1909)
- Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses
- Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey
- Telemachy
- Nekyia
- Trojan Horse
- Suitors of Penelope
- The Odyssey
- Old Man of the Sea
- The Apotheosis of Homer
- Contempt
- Cold Mountain (novel)
- Cold Mountain (film)
- Homer's Daughter
- Parallels between Virgil's Aeneid and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
This article about an American novel is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. See guidelines for writing about novels. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page. |
- v
- t
- e