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A Double Sorrow - Troilus and Criseyde (Paperback, Main)
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A Double Sorrow - Troilus and Criseyde (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R238
Discovery Miles 2 380
You Save R71 (23%)
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Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Poetry Award. When Chaucer composed
Troilus and Criseyde he gave us, some say, his finest poem, and
with it one of the most captivating love stories ever written. A
Double Sorrow, Lavinia Greenlaw's new work, takes its title from
the opening line of that poem in a fresh telling of this most
tortured of love affairs. Set against the Siege of Troy, A Double
Sorrow is the story of Trojan hero Troilus and his beloved
Criseyde, whose traitorous father has defected to the Greeks and
has persuaded them to ask for his daughter in an exchange of
prisoners. In an attempt to save her, Troilus suggests that
Criseyde flees the besieged city with him, but she knows that she
will be universally condemned and looks instead to a temporary
measure: pretending to submit to the exchange, while promising
Troilus that she will return to him within ten days. But once in
the company of the Greeks she soon realises the impossibility of
her promise to Troilus, and in despair succumbs to another. Lavinia
Greenlaw's pinpoint retelling of this heart-wrenching tale is
neither a translation nor strictly a 'version' of Chaucer's work,
but instead creates something new: a sequence of glimpses from the
medieval poem that refine the psychological drama of the classical
story through a process of detonation or amplification of image and
phrase into original poems. In a series of skillfully crafted
seven-line vignettes, the author creates a zoetrope that serves to
illuminate the intensity with which these characters argue each
other and themselves into and out of love. The result is a
breathtaking and shattering read -contemporary and timeless - that
builds into an unforgettable telling of this most heartbreaking of
love stories.
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