Amalgamemnon (British Literature) - Softcover

Brooke-Rose, Christine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564780503 ISBN 13: 9781564780508

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 1994

Synopsis

A woman about to lose her job as a professor of literature and history delivers a passionate, witty, and word-mad monologue.

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From the Back Cover:

History and literature seem to be losing ground to the brave new world of electronic media and technology, and battle lines are being drawn between the humanities and technology, the first world and the third world, women and men. Narrator Mira Enketei erases those boundaries in her punning monologue, blurring the texts of Herodotus with the callers to a talk-radio program, and blending contemporary history with ancient: fairy-tale and literal/invented people (the kidnappers of capitalism, a girl-warrior from Somalia, a pop singer, a political writer), connected by an elaborate mock-genealogy stretching back to the Greek gods, move in and out of each other's stories. The narrator sometimes sees herself as Cassandra, condemned by Apollo to prophesy but never to be believed, enslaved by Agamemnon after the fall of Troy. Brooke-Rose amalgamates ancient literature with modern crises to produce a powerful novel about the future of culture.

About the Author:

Christine Brooke-Rose, formerly a professor at the Universite de Paris, and now retired, lives in France. She is the author of several works of literary criticism and a number of novels, including Amalgamemnon and Xorander.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1564780503
• ISBN 13: 9781564780508
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152