6/4/2023 0 Comments Lavinia ursula le guin review![]() ![]() Lavina is based on events in Virgil's Aeneid the battle scenes do recall the film 300 or the epics of antiquity. ![]() Such a perfect balance of feeling, metre and storytelling it is hard to describe. This is life itself, coaxed onto the page. This is a book that is as perfect as an autumn day or a truly great wine. ![]() Le Guin's ancient Latium is extraordinary, as is Virgil's, but her characters are rooted, real, ordinary." ( THE OBSERVER) Its author writes with a sophistication and clarity that make suspension of disbelief natural. "Lavinia is a fantasy built on a fantasy, yet it rings true. It is a moving testament to the conversations that great writers sustain through the centuries. Ursula Le Guin's vivid novel gives Lavinia a voice. ( THE TIMES)Ī world rich in ritual and piety is evoked, one teeming with divine omens and auguries. A magnificent act of reimagination, best read alongside a good translation of Virgil (such as that of Robert Fagles, whose translation is quoted here) so that Le Guin's brilliant interweaving of Lavinia's story with the original can be fully appreciated. ![]()
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