Now that I'm dead I know everything. This is what I wished would happen, but like so many of my wishes it failed to come true. I know only a few factoids that I didn't know before. Death is much too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity, needless to say.

(Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad, 2005)

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Margaret Atwood, The Penelopeiad

Diese Version der Odyssee aus der Sicht von Penelope wurde mir vor einiger Zeit empfohlen und ich konnte mich nur wundern, warum ich das Buch nicht schon längst gelesen hatte. (Wobei mir beim lesen hie und da doch einiges vertraut vorkam, vielleicht aus einer Leseprobe o.ä.) Nach dem lesen tut es mir nur leid, dass die Story so kurz ist, gerade aus den zehn Jahren der Odysee und der Zeit danach hätte ich mir mehr Details gewünscht.
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Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making. I owe it to myself. I've had to work myself up to it: it's a low art, tale-telling. Old women go in for it, strolling beggars, blind singers, maidservants, children - folks with time on their hands. Once people would have laughed if I'd tried to play the minstrel - there's nothing more preposterous than an aristocrat fumbling around with the arts - but who cares about public opinion now? The opinion of the people down here: the opinion of shadows, of echoes. So I'll spin a thread of my own.

(Margaret Atwood, The Penelopeiad, 2005)