Ilíada - BookWyrm

rústica, 584 pages

Spanish language

Published 2010 by Gredos.

ISBN:: 978-84-249-0344-2

(1 review)

Unos pocos días antes del último de los diez años que duró el asedio de los aqueos a la ciudad de Troya, proporcionan el marco cronológico a los acontecimientos narrados en la Ilíada, el poema más antiguo de la literatura occidental. Producto de una larga tradición oral, la epopeya, como advierte su autor en el primer verso, relata la historia de las consecuencias de una pasión humana. Aquiles, encolerizado por el ultraje de Agamenón, que como caudillo de la expedición griega le ha arrebatado a Briseida, su parte del botín, decide retirarse del combate. Pero no tardará mucho en volver a él, con furia renovada, a raíz de la muerte de su compañero Patroclo a manos de los troyanos. Alrededor de estos hechos, la Ilíada nos presenta un mundo de ideales heroicos y hazañas guerreras, en el que los dioses poseen un protagonismo y una presencia permanentes.

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1 star

Very interesting subject, this could have been a great story. Unfortunately, most of the characters are little more than stereotypes, and everything and everyone is pretty much painted in black and white.

SPOILER.
There are no grey areas. The good guys are super-duper-really-I-mean-it uber-good (and geniuses, and millionaires and pretty much infallible), while the bad guys are corrupt, stupid, bumbling about and get duped again and again.
Which also leads to a definite lack of suspension, because it seems clear pretty early in the story that this is not a fight between equals. So the outcome is pretty much a given.

Why do I rate this book 2/5 if I didn't care for it much?
Some of the characters were actually likeable (if stereotypes) and had a couple of good lines. And the writing wasn't as bad as it could have been, I have read worse, although the proof-reading could …

Very interesting subject, this could have been a great story. Unfortunately, most of the characters are little more than stereotypes, and everything and everyone is pretty much painted in black and white.

SPOILER.
There are no grey areas. The good guys are super-duper-really-I-mean-it uber-good (and geniuses, and millionaires and pretty much infallible), while the bad guys are corrupt, stupid, bumbling about and get duped again and again.
Which also leads to a definite lack of suspension, because it seems clear pretty early in the story that this is not a fight between equals. So the outcome is pretty much a given.

Why do I rate this book 2/5 if I didn't care for it much?
Some of the characters were actually likeable (if stereotypes) and had a couple of good lines. And the writing wasn't as bad as it could have been, I have read worse, although the proof-reading could have been better.
It's not a good sign when typos and mistakes are able to distract the reader from the actual story.