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TROJAN GENERALS TALK
Presents dramatic monologues of ten aging Trojan generals each offering a different perspective on the ten year siege.
164 pages, Hardcover
First published July 1, 1988
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December 17, 2018
The counterpoint follow-up to The Greek Generals Talk, this novel tells the veterans' memories of the Trojan War from the losing side, selecting ten Trojan generals as narrators: Medon, Merops, Pyraechmes, Diator, Odios, Antiphus, Heptaporos, Nastes, and Polydamas. These aged warriors are going to be even less familiar than the others, for which I recommend you do read Homer first. It's definitely not a standalone novel, either.
It's in this that we find out about the identity of the people gathering the memoirs of whatever survivors of the Troy years are still alive, which makes the context of both novels look like a biographer or historian going on tour to interview the remaining World War II veterans before they're all buried and part of history. And we also find out a new disaster is looming over Hellas, where almost all of them have gone to live (ironic considering where they're from), as a new invasion is coming that'll plunge Greece into that dark period following the fall of Troy and the subsequent fall of Mycenae. As they talk of their memoirs, some of the generals in these two novels are readying themselves for a last stand in their old age, which adds in the tragic touch; I'd recommend to read both novels one after the other, as if they were just one novel split in two, for a better grasp of what's going on and what the author intended to tell.
It's in this that we find out about the identity of the people gathering the memoirs of whatever survivors of the Troy years are still alive, which makes the context of both novels look like a biographer or historian going on tour to interview the remaining World War II veterans before they're all buried and part of history. And we also find out a new disaster is looming over Hellas, where almost all of them have gone to live (ironic considering where they're from), as a new invasion is coming that'll plunge Greece into that dark period following the fall of Troy and the subsequent fall of Mycenae. As they talk of their memoirs, some of the generals in these two novels are readying themselves for a last stand in their old age, which adds in the tragic touch; I'd recommend to read both novels one after the other, as if they were just one novel split in two, for a better grasp of what's going on and what the author intended to tell.
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