The Trojan Women: A Comic

The Trojan Women: A Comic | Anne Carson, Euripides

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This GN adaptation just isn‘t for me. It starts with references to James Baldwin and Frederick Seidel, which pulled me completely out of the story. I can‘t get into the language, and I find the imagery just weird.

I think I just don‘t get it. Maybe you will. This is a cilantro book - you probably either love it or hate it and there‘s no explaining one side to the other.

5feet.of.fury Cilantro 🤣 2y

Ruthiella Cilantro! Perfect for readers who‘ve never had marmite! 😂 2y

ravenlee @Ruthiella I‘ve never had Marmite. I‘m not entirely opposed (it‘s vegetarian, right?) but haven‘t had the opportunity to try without buying a whole jar. Not to say I‘d jump at the chance, though. 2y

Ruthiella @ravenlee I‘ve never had it, but I hear it‘s something about which one cannot be neutral. Like cilantro, which I hate, BTW. I used to work in a restaurant and had to chop it as part of my prep work…even the smell bugged me. 2y

ravenlee @Ruthiella I loathe cilantro. My mom likes it but everyone else in my family hates it (she‘s the marginally hispanic side of the family, my dad is the Polish side, so my siblings and I tend toward the eastern European cilantro-hate). I have a friend who loves it so much he orders extra and then tucks it into his cheek like chewing tobacco for a bit before he swallows it. 🤢 I can tolerate a small amount in Indian recipes, cooked, sometimes. 2y

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Lindy

The Trojan Women: A Comic | Anne Carson, Euripides

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Poet Anne Carson & cartoonist Rosanna Bruno created a whimsical, fantastical adaptation of the classic Greek play by Euripides. Hekabe is an old dog; Helen is a fox (or a hand mirror); the chorus of Trojan citizens, enslaved after losing the war, are cows & dogs. Be a polite prisoner if you want to be allowed to bury your dead. The tragedy of war remains with us to this day, making this graphic novel as relevant as it was in ancient times. #comics

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Lindy

The Trojan Women: A Comic | Anne Carson, Euripides

Poseidon: Troy, I‘ll give you Troy: just a big old hotel, luxurious, damp and full of spies. It crouched on the plain like James Baldwin with its eyelids drifting down and up.

vivastory This looks fantastic. I have H of H Playbook on my TBR shelves & I am curious in Grief Lessons 3y

Lindy @vivastory I will definitely seek out more of Carson‘s translations of Euripides. 👍 3y

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Lindy

The Trojan Women: A Comic | Anne Carson, Euripides

Go bury the little body in its little grave. It has as much adornment as the dead require. I think, you know, the dead don‘t care at all for pomp and circumstance — it just entertains the living.

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