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Kentauros, by Gregory Feeley, is a bravura piece of work-part essay, part novella, and part poetry, ranging from the mythological past to the beer commercials of today, it is a cerebral, funny, and moving investigation of the story of the origin of centaurs and why it has fallen into obscurity. "Kentauros is remarkable," writes John Crowley; "a hybrid like the centaur, witty, antique in its elegance: essay and fiction combined into something strange and marvelous. The speculations of someone like Roberto Calasso, or Calasso's own less rambling forebear Robert Graves, joined to fiction in two different intersecting modes, a Jane Austen-like take on the Byronic, and a modern take on the mythic." Feeley is the author of several novellas, most recently "Arabian Wine."
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Little is known about Kentauros, who mated with a mare to create the centaur. Of the Greek poets, only Pindar writes of him, though little beyond the circumstances of his conception, when Zeus laid a trap to catch King Ixion coveting his wife, and giving birth to Kentauros, who "bore a curse that offended gods and men alike." With this beguiling new work, Feeley (Arabian Wine) examines Pindar's words closely for clues about Kentauros, neither mortal nor god, "conceived on Olympus but exiled to a companionless life on earth." The author also intersperses his own myth, in which he imagines the lonely life of Kentauros, seeking survival in a cruel world, and his ill-fated coupling with the mare. And Feeley imagines the circumstances surrounding Percy Shelley's allusions to King Ixion in his poetry; a fantastic interlude finds Mary Shelley attempting to continue her husband's work after his death with the help of Lord Byron and James Leigh Hunt. Feeley's work is an unusual and somewhat disturbing reminder that "myths live where we do" and that "we respond to myths not because they are culture-affirming but because they are frightening."
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- PublisherNew Haven Review Books
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0982900821
- ISBN 13 9780982900826
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages98
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