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• House of Names
• Colm Tóibín
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• 21 February 2019
• 9781501140211

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characters House of Names 107 A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR The Guardian The Boston Globe St Louis DispatchFrom the thrilling imagination of bestselling award winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra spectacularly audacious violent vengeful lustful and instantly compelling and her children“I have been acuainted with the smell of death” So begins Clytemnestra’s tale of her own life in ancient Mycenae the legendary Greek city from which her husband King Agamemnon left when he set sail with his army for Troy Clytemnestra rules Mycenae now along with her new lover Aegisthus and together they plot the bloody murder of Agamemnon on the day of his return afte. Colm Tobin revisits the recurrent subject of the mother in his novels in this reimagining of the Ancient Greek tragedy of the House of Atreus told in four parts The mother here is the despised and cursed Clytemnestra whose damning historical reputation he counters by making her human and understandable The retelling departs from the original where the characters actions are directed as the gods will and instead result from natural human emotions and misjudgment This is a story that dwells on the themes of betrayal loss grief corruption power failure loneliness and repression It is told through the perspective of Clytemnestra her son and daughter Orestes and Electra and the ghost of ClytemnestraAgamemnon betrays and sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia on her wedding day to win the Trojan war Clytemnestra is griefstricken and seeks to assuage her desperate loss by dreaming of and planning the murder of Agamemnon She is now the power in the land and she is aided by her lover Aegisthus Agamemnon returns with his precious other woman deemed the spoils of war Clytemnestra murders him by knifing him in the throat Things begin to get out of hand and Orestes returns from exile In a departure from the original story the character of Orestes is significantly low key and submissive reliant on his friend Leander and subject to the machinations of his sister Electra He looks to avenge his father and kills his mother who returns as a ghostWhere Tobin excels is in his depiction of the character of Clytemnestra who comes alive effortlessly through his prose The language he deploys is often sublime expressive and vivid He creates a doom laden picture of palace intrigue and an unsettling atmosphere However the narrative feels uneven and cheuered in the reinterpretation of this story The role he gives Orestes is much weaker and less authentic than that of the larger than life Clytemnestra Tobin just does the mother figure so much better However overall I enjoyed reading this novel of this dysfunctional blood soaked family history It is a timeless tale whose echoes can be heard throughout our human history time and time again Thanks to Penguin for an ARC The River of Doubt Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey imagination of bestselling award winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra spectacularly audacious violent vengeful lustful and Truth Torture and the American Way The History and Conseuences of US Involvement in Torture instantly compelling and her children“I have been acuainted with the smell of death” So begins Clytemnestra’s tale of her own life The Killing Fields in ancient Mycenae the legendary Greek city from which her husband King Agamemnon left when he set sail with his army for Troy Clytemnestra rules Mycenae now along with her new lover Aegisthus and together they plot the bloody murder of Agamemnon on the day of his return afte. 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characters House of Names 107 Nguage to an ancient classic and gives this extraordinary character new life so that we not only believe Clytemnestra’s thirst for revenge but applaud it He brilliantly inhabits the mind of one of Greek myth’s most powerful villains to reveal the love lust and pain she feels Told in fours parts this is a fiercely dramatic portrait of a murderess who will herself be murdered by her own son Orestes It is Orestes’ story too his capture by the forces of his mother’s lover Aegisthus his escape and his exile And it is the story of the vengeful Electra who watches over her mother and Aegisthus with cold anger and slow calculation until on the return of her brother she has the fates of both of them in her han. I recently had a conversation with a GR friend about which books are harder to review She said that the ones you love and I opted for the ones for which you feel nothing After reading The House of Names I stick to my choice It is difficult to find my words when there is not much to say I am infuriated to feel so non emotional towards this novel because it started so well I could feel the tension in Clytemnestra s story and the writing was exuisite But I m getting ahead of myselfThe House of Names is a retelling of the Greek tragedy of the House of Atreus drawing its inspiration from Aeschylus s trilogy Oresteia You might want to read the original first to have a better idea of the starting point I had no prior knowledge of the classic tale and I had no problem to follow the story However I made some research so I could compare the two versions Would my experience with this novel have been different if I had read classics Probably Agamemnon is told by the gods that he needs to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia in order to win the war Although reluctant he agrees to do so Clytemnestra his wife cannot come to terms with the sacrifice and kills her husband after careful planning together with her lover Aegytus when Agamemnon returns victorious from the war In order to protect the other two children Orestes and Electra she asks her lover to take them away when the crime takes place Electra is locked in the dungeon and Orestes is taken prisoner away from the castle form where he escapes When Orestes returns home after years spend in exile he is convinced by his sister to kill her mother in revenge for their father death The story is told from three POV Clytemnestra Oreste and Electra The novel starts strong letting us inside the mind of the avenging mother The account was powerful chilling I could feel her hurt and anger for the sacrifice of her daughter I felt for her and empathized with her resolve to revenge what she thought to be a useless murder The second part the account of Orestes was written in the 3rd person and the prose became impersonal flat and superficial I did not care any I felt like facts were presented but without any feelings involved When we come back to the 1st person account of Electra I was already bored and her perspective did not manage to resurrect my initial appreciation for T ib n s writing There were some difference between the classic story and this retelling The gods were not physically present only spoken of and the focus was intended to be on the internal battles and the human emotions of the characters I wrote intended because the aspect was not developed enough I really do not understand why the author chose to write Orestes POV in 3rd person Was it because in the end he was a pawn in the women hand s Was it because he was less important Was it a stylistic decision Whatever the reason it did not work out well in my opinion Another theme that I would have liked to be further developed was the relationship with the Gods There were some memorable passages in the first part regarding Clytemnestra s loss of faith and it was hinted later that her greatest crime was not consulting with the Gods when deciding to kill his husband but I wanted Among the gods now there is no one who offers me assistance or oversees my actions or knows my mind There is no one among the gods to whom I appeal I live alone in the shivering solitary knowledge that the time of the gods has passed The House of Names is the first novel I read by Colm Toibin I believe he is a talented writer and the novel was a uick and enjoyable read most of the time However I wanted soul less detachment I received this copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest reviewThe uote is taken from an ARC and it might suffer modifications in the final version Cicero The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician it He brilliantly Breaking the Rules inhabits the mind of one of Greek myth’s most powerful villains to reveal the love lust and pain she feels Told Aquarius Rising in fours parts this Get Well Good Knight Puffin Easy to Read is a fiercely dramatic portrait of a murderess who will herself be murdered by her own son Orestes It By the Numbers is Orestes’ story too his capture by the forces of his mother’s lover Aegisthus his escape and his exile And The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook it Sextrology Anthology 2009 is the story of the vengeful Electra who watches over her mother and Aegisthus with cold anger and slow calculation until on the return of her brother she has the fates of both of them No Good Deed Mark Taylor #1 in her han. 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characters House of Names 107 R nine years at warJudged despised cursed by gods she has long since lost faith in Clytemnestra reveals the tragic saga that led to these bloody actions how her husband deceived her eldest daughter Iphigeneia with a promise of marriage to Achilles only to sacrifice her because that is what he was told would make the winds blow in his favor and take him to Troy; how she seduced and collaborated with the prisoner Aegisthus who shared her bed in the dark and could kill; how Agamemnon came back with a lover himself; and how Clytemnestra finally achieved her vengeance for his stunning betrayal his uest for victory greater than his love for his childIn House of Names Colm Tóibín brings a modern sensibility and la. It has been forever and a day back to my school days since I have read anything concerning mythology the gods and the ancient Greeks To be honest if it wasn t written by this author I probably would have passed on reading So I can in no way pretend to be an expert nor even make any educated thoughts on its comparisons to the original I can say that I surprised myself by how much I became engaged and enjoyed the telling of this storyTobin sets his story at a time when the power of the God s is waning Before this happens Agmemmnon sacrifices his own daughter so that the God s would be pleased and allow his ships to sail and also allow he and his men to prevail in the battle of Troy Clytemnestra is of corse beyond furious and plots her revenge So sets the stage for betrayal grasping of power murder lies subterfuge and much plotting The Story is told by the three main characters Clytemnestra her remaining daughter Electra and Orestes whoever life will take a different path before they are all bought together again Leander who we never hear from directly is my favorie character He seems to be the only one with any integrity So there is infighting and plotting from within and without As I was reading I couldn t help but compare this to Henry VIII and his reign and also to what is happening in different countries with various tribes and their ethnic cleansing and the various religions each who thinks their God is the only one So I found that this tale has a timelessness to it a tale for the agesARC from publisher