The Way To Colonons

by Kay Cicellis

In a contemporary reconstruction of three Greek tragedies - Oedipus at Colonons, Electra, and Philoctetes - Kay Cicellis is concerned with the universal motives of human behaviour. Whether it is in the story of Atigone's filial obedience and devotion in her terrifying journey of self-banishment, the return of Orestes to a dissolute household held together my mutual hatred, or the exile of a political prisoner to a bleak island where he experiences the agony of isolation - Miss Cicellis always depicts emotions which move people as irrevocably to destruction today as they did in the days of Sophocles.

156 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1960

About the author

Greek: Καίη Τσιτσέλη

Reviews

[Robert (NurseBob) · Rating 1 out of 5]

I tried to get into these three short stories, even reading synopses of the ancient Greek plays on which they were based in order to better understand them. In the end, however, I felt like I was reading the diary of a petulant 15-year old girl who was angry with her father...or her mother...or her brother. Barely made it through the first story, skimmed the second, skipped the third entirely.