by Alessandro Baricco · Feltrinelli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807490316
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«Omero, Iliade» is Alessandro Baricco's rewriting of Homer's Iliad, published by Feltrinelli in paperback (163 pages, in Italian).
Alessandro Baricco turns Homer's Iliad into twenty-one monologues: twenty characters from the poem take the floor, and an aoidos closes the volume narrating the siege and fall of Troy. The gods recede into the background; the focus is on men, their passions, and a war portrayed as desire, destiny, fascination, and condemnation.
Conceived for public reading, it draws on Maria Grazia Ciani's translation. The final monologue is by Demodocus, an aoidos who narrates the fall of Troy following the Odyssey and other sources.
For those interested in Greek mythology, rewritings of classics, and contemporary Italian narrative; its choral and theatrical structure brings the Trojan cycle closer.
Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer, director and performer. His novels have been translated into a number of languages.
