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HYDRA
In a simple room in an American city, a tutor and a paralysed student meet, their common ground the text under discussion - Euripides's drama, Herakles, in which the hero returning from his labours suddenly kills, in a fit of insanity, his wife and children. The tutor is reluctant to let personal feelings infiltrate the exchange while they talk. Identifying with a dramatic character is like planting a foreign spy within the state of criticism. And it seems that the student, struggling against terrible odds, cannot count (as Herakles does) on a sympathetic friend. Within the formal span of a day, this challenging first novel exposes the anguish of paralysis in a world where all children are under hydra-headed threat - whether from nuclear war, disease, or sudden disaster. It explores the dividing line between heart and head, and pursues with unpredictable tenacity the loves and fears that secretly impel us.
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