Come l'avevamo appresa, quella disposizione all'insaziabilitá?
Margaret Atwood - Il racconto dell'Ancella
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I don’t like remembering that feeling. It was like having a sinkhole open up and swallow you–not only you, but your house, your room, your past, everything you’d ever known about yourself, even the way you looked–it was falling and smothering and darkness, all at once.
Margaret Atwood - 'The Testaments,' September 2019
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Margaret Atwood, from The Blind Assassin
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I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
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Margaret Atwood, from “The Art of Fiction No. 121”
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my personal list of greek myth retellings that are actually good and do something interesting with the myth:
The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea, Mary Renault
Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays, Christa Wolf
The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood
The Lost Books of the Odyssey, Zachary Mason
Here the World Entire, Anwen Kya Hayward
Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles, Jeanette Winterson
Achilles, Elizabeth Cook
Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald
Averno, Louise Glück
Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
Antigonick, Anne Carson
Oresteia, Robert Icke
Antigone, Jean Anouilh
Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl
Girl on an Altar, Marina Carr
Los Reyes, Julio Cortázar
Hadestown, Anaïs Mitchell
O Brother Where Art Thou, Coen Brothers
honorable mention to Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia which doesn't count on a technicality
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there is only one of everything, margaret atwood
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Margaret Atwood, from The Blind Assassin
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Margaret atwood, from power politics: poems
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~ Margaret Atwood, from "Variation on the World Sleep"
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more and more, margaret atwood
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Margaret Atwood, from The Testaments
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