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| Original Title: | Lavinia |
| ISBN: | 0151014248 (ISBN13: 9780151014248) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2009), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2009), Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2010), James Tiptree Jr. Award Honor List (2008) |
Ursula K. Le Guin
Hardcover | Pages: 279 pages Rating: 3.79 | 8319 Users | 1278 Reviews
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In a richly imagined, beautiful new novel, an acclaimed writer gives an epic heroine her voice.
In The Aeneid, Virgil’s hero fights to claim the king’s daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills.
Lavinia grows up knowing nothing but peace and freedom, until suitors come. Her mother wants her to marry handsome, ambitious Turnus. But omens and prophecies spoken by the sacred springs say she must marry a foreigner—that she will be the cause of a bitter war—and that her husband will not live long. When a fleet of Trojan ships sails up the Tiber, Lavinia decides to take her destiny into her own hands. And so she tells us what Vergil did not: the story of her life, and of the love of her life.
Lavinia is a book of passion and war, generous and austerely beautiful, from a writer working at the height of her powers.
In The Aeneid, Virgil’s hero fights to claim the king’s daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills.
Lavinia grows up knowing nothing but peace and freedom, until suitors come. Her mother wants her to marry handsome, ambitious Turnus. But omens and prophecies spoken by the sacred springs say she must marry a foreigner—that she will be the cause of a bitter war—and that her husband will not live long. When a fleet of Trojan ships sails up the Tiber, Lavinia decides to take her destiny into her own hands. And so she tells us what Vergil did not: the story of her life, and of the love of her life.
Lavinia is a book of passion and war, generous and austerely beautiful, from a writer working at the height of her powers.
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| Title | : | Lavinia |
| Author | : | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 279 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 2008 by Harcourt, Inc. |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fantasy. Fiction. Mythology |
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Ratings: 3.79 From 8319 Users | 1278 ReviewsDiscuss Containing Books Lavinia
I gave this book four stars for its credible evocation of a very different time and place; for the feeling it gave of research thoroughly done but applied with a light hand; and most of all for the beauty of Le Guin's prose. The lady simply has a way with words.Lavinia never speaks a word in The Aeneid; Le Guin gives her a voice. She also has Lavinia muse on her own status as the creation of a poet, and the form of limited immortality her incomplete rendering gives her. The book can be read as aBeing a lady classicist often requires willful acts of cognitive dissonance. It's not just that nearly all your extant source material was written by men, about men, for men, it's also that Greek and Roman culture, particularly the culture portrayed in the great epics (the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid) is brutally testosterone-fueled and flagrantly anti-woman. In epic, the worst women are pure, unadulterated evil--monsters like Scylla, Charybdis, and the Sirens. Slightly less evil are
This retelling of Virgil's Aeneid from Lavina's point of view is blissfully mythic. I often prefer ancient world to medieval fantasy, because people in the ancient world experienced life through a mythic mindset, or so I believe. Like you could say the Australian aboriginal dreamtime was real, because those people used it to navigate their world, the mythic world of Vesta, Juno, and Mars was real because the Latins' mental model of the world revolved around them.Ursula Le Guin really worked at
Why do Americans write "Vergil" and the British write "Virgil"?This book is something of a metaphysical head-scratcher; it is the first person narrative of the life of a woman who knows she isn't real! This appears to be a refutation of Descartes' famous "cogito ergo sum" (as if any more such were required).It's an interesting tale with convincing characters but perhaps too much time spent dwelling on childhood (something that LeGuin has done repeatedly in my view). LeGuin claims to have been
Is it possible that Ursula K. LeGuin can write a bad book?I guess anything is possible: I could win the lottery, get hit by a meteorite, struck by lightning, etc. All very low probabilities.As expected, this is beautifully written and crafted with an inspired structure. Telling the story of Lavinia, who in Vergils great work Aenid, did not speak a word; LeGuin describes the princesss story in that of an almost pre-historic and pagan setting. This is really the element of this story that I will
Following the resounding success of my Locus Quest, I faced a dilemma: which reading list to follow it up with? Variety is the spice of life, so Ive decided to diversify and pursue six different lists simultaneously. This book falls into my LOCUS FANTASY list.As the Locus Sci-Fi Award winners list treated me so kindly, I figure Ill trust those same good folk to pick me some stars in their sister-list, the Locus Fantasy Award winners.Having never read any Le Guin before, I was a little unsure
Ursula K. Le Guin has a true gift for evoking the mysterious echoes of a far distant mythic past. I first noticed this in her Earthsea cycle: the darkness of both temple and tomb, a world trembling with unrealized mysteries, attempts to harness powers that can never be fully mastered. While Lavinia departs from the traditional fantasy genre in that it is a retelling of The Aeneid, it has lost none of the atmospheric richness that make Ms. Le Guins books so magical.The tale is told from the
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