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Despite its length, its poetic turns and its monumental status, “The Odyssey?? follows a simple premise: man departs, man gets lost, man arrives safe and sound at destination...
Mason’s task is a bold one. After all, few read Homer’s “Odyssey?? with the nagging feeling that something is missing from the story, and the epic is a touchstone for tales of travel and homecoming. As early as the first century BCE, Vergil was borrowing from the Greek epic to tell his own “Aeneid”; Leopold Bloom’s very different wandering in “Ulysses” set the bar almost impossibly high for modern adaptations. Mason’s book, then...
Critics have aptly compared Mason to the experimental novelist Italo Calvino; the looping path of “The Lost Books of The Odyssey?? calls to mind the continual beginnings of Calvino’s “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler,” and the distorted views of Venice in “Invisible Cities” find their match in Mason’s ever-refracted portrait of Odysseus. Both authors leave the reader with the task of sorting through their sketches. Like Calvino, Mason trades in shadows...
...author’s work. Many of his plot twists recall Calvino’s own piece, “The Odysseys Within ‘The Odyssey,’” which opens by wondering, “How many Odysseys does ‘The Odyssey?? contain?” Mason’s shifting variations seem to ask the same question...
...such films as “A Clockwork Orange” with a visit from Marc Hauser, a professor in Harvard’s psychology pepartment; “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” with pscychology professor Daniel Schacter; and “2001: A Space Odyssey?? with cognitive scientist Marvin L. Minsky ’50. “Audiences should expect to see a classic or cult feature film or outstanding and hard-to-find documentary, beautifully projected onto the giant silver screen,” says Taylor-Mead...