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"In this novel, Inge Merkel, the Viennese historian and classicist, intimates with irony, humor and a twinkle in her eyes why it took Odysseus twenty years to return to his wife and son. It is the old story of long-suffering resourceful Odysseus told from the point of view of clever Penelope. Merkel is interested less in the heroic epic than in the experiences of a woman whose husband abandons wife and infant to pursue adventures in the Trojan War.
What Odysseus inflicts on Penelope is, according to Merkel, human, all too human. How does a wife wait for two decades for her husband, who feigns patriotic duty and plunges into battle and amorous adventures? How does she welcome her hero, who has spent himself on the plains of Troy and in exotic caverns and now wishes to be comforted at home?"--BOOK JACKET.
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Odysseus and Penelope: An Ordinary Marriage
July 2000, Ariadne Press (CA)
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Eine Ganz Gewoehnliche Ehe: Odysseus Und Penelope
May 1, 1999, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
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Eine ganz gewöhnliche Ehe: Odysseus und Penelope
1991-05, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
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Eine ganz gewöhnliche Ehe: Odysseus und Penelope
1989, Fischer Taschenbuch, Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt
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Eine ganz gewöhnliche Ehe: Odysseus und Penelope
1987, Residenz Verlag
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Menschlicher noch als bei Homer geht es in Inge Merkels Roman Eine ganz gewöhnliche Ehe zu. Als gehörten Odysseus und Penelope nicht zu den klassischen Gestalten der griechischen Sagenwelt, lassen sie sich gehen, verletzen sie einander, bereiten sich gegenseitig Kummer und Verzweiflung und finden doch Kraft für Verzeihen und Verständnis. »Wirklich zu Hause kann ein Mann nur sein«, heißt es von Odysseus nach zwanzigjähriger Abwesenheit von Weib und Sohn, »wenn er von irgendwo zurückgekommen ist.«
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