Free Thinking - Landmark: The Odyssey
Download Landmark: The Odyssey
Amit Chaudhuri, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Daniel Mendelsohn and Emily Wilson join Philip Dodd to explore translating, rewriting and using Homer's epic work to frame a memoir.
Emily Wilson has published a new translation of The Odyssey
Daniel Mendelsohn has written An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and An Epic
Karen McCarthy Woolf wrote Nightshift as part of a BBC Radio 4's Odyssey Project which commissioned ten writers to create a contemporary response. Her most recent collection is called Seasonal Disturbances.
Amit Chaudhuri has written a novel called Odysseus Abroad which draws on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and The Odyssey.
Published on Tuesday, 9th January 2018.
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