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The Way to Colonos: Sophocles Retold

The Way to Colonos: Sophocles Retold

Cusk, Rachel
Cicellis, Kay

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Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 1946022772
ISBN13: 9781946022776
Publisher: McNally Editions
Published: Dec 30 2025
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.53
Height: 1.02 Width: 4.96 Depth: 8.35
Language: English

A fiery modern retelling of three Greek tragedies, written in an ageless prose that instantly strikes the reader as the work of a master. (Rachel Cusk, from the foreword)

First published in 1961, The Way to Colonos recasts three seminal plays by Sophocles into tales of modern women and warfare, probing their characters with savage intimacy. Antigone--a stylish woman in her thirties--wheeling her father, Oedipus, onto the ferry to Colonos, is disgusted by his self-absorption, guilt, and evasions. A suburban Electra dreams of a bloody confrontation with her mother, Clytemnestra, that may never come to pass. Philoctetes, a castaway soldier, navigates shifting allegiances in a guerrilla war that divided Greece after World War II.

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