Ragnarok, The End of the Gods
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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 autobigraphical 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 tale 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
Autoren-Porträt von A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt gelangte mit ihrem Roman "Besessen", der 1990 mit dem Booker-Preis ausgezeichnet wurde, zu Weltruhm. Ihr Werk umfasst neun Romane, zahlreiche Erzählungen und literaturkritische Texte; für ihr Schaffen wurde sie vielfach ausgezeichnet und 1999 von der Queen zur Dame Commander of the British Empire ernannt. A. S. Byatt kam 1936 in Yorkshire zur Welt, hat drei Töchter und lebt in London.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: A. S. Byatt
- 2011, 192 Seiten, Maße: 22 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Canongate Books
- ISBN-10: 1847670644
- ISBN-13: 9781847670649
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.08.2011
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Englisch
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