Amalgamemnon - (British Literature) by Christine Brooke-Rose (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A woman about to lose her job as a professor of literature and history delivers a passionate, witty, and word-mad monologue.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>A woman about to lose her job as a professor of literature and history delivers a passionate, witty, and word-mad monologue.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>History and literature seem to be losing ground to the brave new world of electronic media and technology, and battle lines are being drawn between the humanities and technology, the first world and the third world, women and men. Narrator Mira Enketei erases those boundaries in her punning monologue, blurring the texts of Herodotus with the callers to a talk-radio program, and blending contemporary history with ancient: fairy-tale and literal/invented people (the kidnappers of capitalism, a girl-warrior from Somalia, a pop singer, a political writer), connected by an elaborate mock-genealogy stretching back to the Greek gods, move in and out of each other's stories. The narrator sometimes sees herself as Cassandra, condemned by Apollo to prophesy but never to be believed, enslaved by Agamemnon after the fall of Troy. Brooke-Rose amalgamates ancient literature with modern crises to produce a powerful novel about the future of culture.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[Amalgamemnon] will surely feature in the literary histories when Booker contenders have faded away. Only 140 pages, but informed by a delight in language and wordplay that attracts the...more pejorative label 'experimental' (authors should not display too much inventiveness and intelligence or be influenced by French modes if British). An ideal gift for readers who like to keep their wits about them. "<br><br>[T]otally fascinating. . . . [An] immensely rich book. . . . Amalgamemnon is a brilliant example of its author's thesis, proving the eternal creative flexibility of language and the restorative vitality of one person's cultural memory. "<br><br>About what it feels like to be a word-addict worse, a writing addict in the brave new world of communications technology. "<br><br>This sort of metafiction can start like a rocket, then fizzle, but Christine Brooke-Rose s novel keeps gaining momentum, blazes with wit and regains for fiction some of the territory lost to critics in recent raids. On all counts it deserves the three stars from Orion s belt. "<br>
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