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The Song Of Achilles: Bloomsbury Modern Classics Tapa blanda – 21 septiembre 2017
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Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, Achilles must go to war in distant Troy and fulfill his destiny. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus goes with him, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.
'A book I could not put down' ANN PATCHETT
'An exciting, sexy, violent Superman version of The Iliad' GUARDIAN
'Sexy, dangerous, mystical' BETTANY HUGHES
- Longitud de impresión1 páginas
- IdiomaInglés
- EditorialBloomsbury Publishing
- Fecha de publicación21 septiembre 2017
- Dimensiones19.7 x 2.8 x 13 cm
- ISBN-109781408891384
- ISBN-13978-1408891384
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A captivating retelling of the Iliad and events leading up to it through the point of view of Patroclus: it's a hard book to put down, and any classicist will be enthralled by her characterisation of the goddess Thetis, which carries the true savagery and chill of antiquity ― Donna Tartt
At once a scholar's homage to the Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist ... A book I could not put down ― Ann Patchett
Inventive, passionate, uplifting and different ... A truly worthy winner ― Joanna Trollope
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Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, the boys develop a tender friendship, a bond which blossoms into something deeper as they grow into y
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Madeline Miller is the author of The Song of Achilles, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012, was shortlisted for the Stonewall Writer of the Year 2012, was an instant New York Times bestseller, and was translated into twenty-five languages. Madeline holds an MA in Classics from Brown University, and she taught Latin, Greek and Shakespeare to high school students for over a decade. She has also studied at the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought, and at Yale School of Drama, where she focused on the adaptation of classical texts to modern forms. Her essays have appeared in publications including the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Lapham's Quarterly and NPR.org. She lives outside Philadelphia.
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- ASIN : 1408891387
- Editorial : Bloomsbury Publishing; N.º 1 edición (21 septiembre 2017)
- Idioma : Inglés
- Tapa blanda : 1 páginas
- ISBN-10 : 9781408891384
- ISBN-13 : 978-1408891384
- Peso del producto : 256 g
- Dimensiones : 19.7 x 2.8 x 13 cm
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La canción de Aquiles es un gran libro para introducirte en el mundo de los clásicos griegos como La Ilíada o la Odisea si no quieres empezar por algo demasiado pesado. La historia es ligera, no se hace tediosa en ningún momento, y su manea de contar los mitos es sencilla y accesible. La trama, independientemente de la fuente de origen, es interesante, los personajes están bien perfilados y es fácil que te encariñes de ellos, aunque no lo recomiendo en absoluto. Esto es una advertencia, preparad los pañuelos. Jamás pensé que podría emocionarme tanto con algo que di en Cultura Clásica hace más de 7 años.
Si tuviera que mencionar alguna pega, diría que la historia, aunque no se haga aburrida, es verdad que sigue una estructura que divaga un poco. Da unos cuantos paseos antes de llegar a algo que se pudiera considerar como el conflicto principal. Esto puede resultar algo enervante si vienes buscando algún tipo de "acción" desde el principio, pero considero que vale la pena esperar. 4/5

Revisado en España 🇪🇸 el 26 de mayo de 2021
La canción de Aquiles es un gran libro para introducirte en el mundo de los clásicos griegos como La Ilíada o la Odisea si no quieres empezar por algo demasiado pesado. La historia es ligera, no se hace tediosa en ningún momento, y su manea de contar los mitos es sencilla y accesible. La trama, independientemente de la fuente de origen, es interesante, los personajes están bien perfilados y es fácil que te encariñes de ellos, aunque no lo recomiendo en absoluto. Esto es una advertencia, preparad los pañuelos. Jamás pensé que podría emocionarme tanto con algo que di en Cultura Clásica hace más de 7 años.
Si tuviera que mencionar alguna pega, diría que la historia, aunque no se haga aburrida, es verdad que sigue una estructura que divaga un poco. Da unos cuantos paseos antes de llegar a algo que se pudiera considerar como el conflicto principal. Esto puede resultar algo enervante si vienes buscando algún tipo de "acción" desde el principio, pero considero que vale la pena esperar. 4/5






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The Song of Achilles is a retelling, one which takes the myth and runs with it. Here Achilles really is the son of a sea nymph, he is trained by a centaur, and gods play their part in the lives of man.
I used to know my Classics a lot better that I do now - Roger Lancelyn Green’s books were a staple of my childhood library - so this was a book which unfolded for me. I remembered each plot point as we hit it, so I’m entirely the wrong person to ask if it makes any logical sense. It probably doesn’t. It certainly could have done a better job of selling ancient motivations to a modern audience.
The story is told by Patroclus, a prince and, when he begins this story, unlikely candidate for Helen’s hand in marriage. I am super here for a room full of men deciding what will happen to a teenage girl, as you can imagine. This is a male story, though, and Miller doesn’t attempt to change that.
However, when Patroclus inadvertently kills another boy, he is exiled to the court of Peleus where he falls swooningly in love with Mary Sue Achilles, who’s super perfect at everything (as one expects from a demi-god). Thetis, Achilles’ mother, really hates Patroclus. The boys go off to learn things on a mountain. They are swoonily swoony. They come back. Thetis hates Patroclus. Then she hides Achilles because she doesn’t want him to go to Troy as he will be killed.
Once the war actually begins, a good half way through the book, things improve, in part because there’s actually things happening. There is air of inexorability to the whole thing which really gets into its stride in the last third as we make the drive towards what is fated to happen (and we’re no longer reading rambling scenes about how swoony teenage Achilles is).
When Miller hits the predetermined narrative events, she’s good. When she’s making her own way between, she’s… less good.
For a book which treats the gods as real, there’s an awful lot of “something’s happening because the gods are displeased” conversations, followed by “here’s the solution to that” conversations. Obviously there’s no one correct version of many of the myths, but sometimes Miller takes the path of most boredom, such as the demand for the sacrifice of Iphigenia. Apollo’s appearance on the walls of Troy especially charmed me, so the omission of the gods involvement in other ways, even as a background, felt disappointing.
I am also critical of the characterisation. Odysseus is great, true, but everybody else? Eh.
Achilles lives his whole life chained to the prophecies made about him, but whatever this does to him remains unexplored. He’s just some guy. Admittedly one who is super good at everything and jolly good looking. And when we’re reading the narrative of a boy, then man, who is in love with him, I’d really have preferred to grasp the appeal.
Thetis is especially poorly done. Like her son she is chained to the pronouncements of the Fates, but here she is a pure JustNoMil. She’s such a central figure in the original myth - the Trojan war begins because of a prophecy made about her: the son of Thetis will be greater than his father, hence “marriage” to Peleus, hence somebody not doing the invitations right, hence golden apple etc etc etc
I was also unreasonably annoyed that Miller chooses to not use the one thing everybody knows about our demi-god: that he really should have invested in some foot armour. Google assures me Homer doesn’t include the story of Thetis’s attempt to make her son invulnerable and immortal, but Homer doesn’t include Achilles’ death, either. Or the romantic relationship between him and Patroclus. It felt like a massive oversight rather than a deliberate decision.
The beginning was interesting if not grippy. Then it got a bit dull. Then a bit duller. Then, by the end, it was very good indeed. I don’t rule out reading Circe, Miller’s second full length novel, but I could just as easily not. Overall?
3 stars

She's managed to take everything we know of the story from the existing texts and build a world that is thoroughly absorbing and beautiful. It's a story of epic soul binding love, so beautifully rendered.
I really enjoyed how there was no modern lens put onto the story. She just tells it. Ideas and concepts that mean something to us would have been meaningless to the ancients, and behaviours we find unacceptable were normal. So some bits are difficult, there's human sacrifice, and slavery including sexual slavery, but nothing is gratuitous or too graphic.
Just read it it's beautiful.

I actually loved it. This is a beautifully-written, very descriptive book. It was easy to read, and a real page turner. I felt that I learned a lot about ancient Greece and the Trojan war. I can't fully remember the story of Achilles from school (it has been erased from my memory, along with Jason and the Argonauts, and the Minotaur) but I loved this re-telling and couldn't put the book down. The simple, striking cover is beautiful too and I would thoroughly recommend this book. A wonderful read.

Does this count as historical, or mythological, or pure fantasy? Don't care - brilliant, brilliant book. It was positively painful to read it if I'm honest but I couldn't put it down. One of those books that I felt a true and consuming sense of loss for a few days after reading it. Recommended to EVERYONE.
