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Grekland p ̄hjl̃tarnas tid. Patroklos, en tafatt ung prins, tvingas g ̄i landsflykt och hamnar hos kung Peleus och hans perfekte son Akilles. Deras olikheter till trots vx̃er en innerlig vñskap fram mellan pojkarna, en relation som djupnar till nḡot mer i takt med att de mognar till unga mñ.Nr̃ Helena av Sparta blir bortrv̲ad skickas Akilles i vg̃ till det fjr̃ran Troja fr̲ att fullfl̲ja sitt d̲e. Sliten mellan kr̃lek och oro v̲er vñnen gr̲ Patroklos honom sl̃lskap, utan att ana att allt de hl̄ler kr̃t kommer att st̃tas p ̄prov under de kommande r̄en.… (mer)
emanate28: Maybe they are too similar... But both The Persian Boy and The Song of Achilles are heartbreaking and beautiful stories of legendary heroes told from the perspective of their devoted boy lovers. The ancient heroes come alive and one is transported back into those times.… (mer)
marq: Mark Merlis also takes up the story of Pyrrhus (or Neoptolemus), Achilles’ son with Deidamia when he was in disguise as a woman on Scyros. A very different kind of novel, steampunk, wild anachronism, graphically homoerotic, brilliant.
My friend told me they tore the last pages out cuz they hated the ending due to it being "extremely homophobic" (their words). Had me intrigued, so I read the book. Got close to the end and thought, sure it's sad, but not that sad. Then I read the last chapter. The F-ing audacity! That lil shit! Glad he died. Understand my friend now. ( )
That The Song of Achilles offers a different take on the epic story of Achilles and the Trojan War is not, in itself, anything particularly out of the ordinary. People have been putting their own spins on The Iliad from the instant Homer finished reciting it. What's startling about this sharply written, cleverly re-imagined, enormously promising debut novel from Madeline Miller is how fresh and moving her take on the tale is — how she has managed to bring Achilles and his companion Patroclus to life in our time without removing them from their own.
But in the case of Miller, who earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in classics at Brown, the epic reach exceeds her technical grasp. The result is a book that has the head of a young adult novel, the body of the “Iliad” and the hindquarters of Barbara Cartland.
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To my mother Madeline, and Nathaniel
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My father was a king and the son of kings.
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I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.
We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.
"That is — your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.
Avslutande ord
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'Go', she says. 'He waits for you.'
In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood, like a hundred golden urns pouring out the sun.
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Grekland p ̄hjl̃tarnas tid. Patroklos, en tafatt ung prins, tvingas g ̄i landsflykt och hamnar hos kung Peleus och hans perfekte son Akilles. Deras olikheter till trots vx̃er en innerlig vñskap fram mellan pojkarna, en relation som djupnar till nḡot mer i takt med att de mognar till unga mñ.Nr̃ Helena av Sparta blir bortrv̲ad skickas Akilles i vg̃ till det fjr̃ran Troja fr̲ att fullfl̲ja sitt d̲e. Sliten mellan kr̃lek och oro v̲er vñnen gr̲ Patroklos honom sl̃lskap, utan att ana att allt de hl̄ler kr̃t kommer att st̃tas p ̄prov under de kommande r̄en.
My friend told me they tore the last pages out cuz they hated the ending due to it being "extremely homophobic" (their words). Had me intrigued, so I read the book. Got close to the end and thought, sure it's sad, but not that sad. Then I read the last chapter. The F-ing audacity! That lil shit! Glad he died. Understand my friend now. ( )