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Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays
by Christa Wolf
🏰Historical fiction~305 pages
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Waiting outside the gates of Mycenae, knowing what is about to happen to her, the Trojan priestess Cassandra looks back over the war, her family and the slow hardening of a city into a war machine. Told as one continuous interior monologue, the novel gives the myth a political and psychological edge: a woman who sees clearly, is disbelieved, and comes to understand why. The accompanying essays trace the author's travels and research behind the book. Dense, controlled and charged with grief, it combines ancient setting with strikingly modern questions about power, propaganda and who is permitted to speak.
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