Joyce Carol Oates goes to battle for 'Odyssey,' takes aim at translator Emily Wilson's viral review
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LOS ANGELES — Days after a classicist who translated Homer's "The Odyssey" in 2017 eviscerated the Christopher Nolan film based on the poem, Joyce Carol Oates has entered the debate. She's Team Nolan. The National Book Award-winning author is known…
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The celebrated author weighs in on Christopher Nolan's film: "No reason why Nolan, or anyone else, should not re-imagine/re-envision a classical hero."
Emily Wilson, Joyce Carol Oates would like a word. The former, who is responsible for what is probably the most popular translation of The Odyssey, was deeply critical of Christopher Nolan’s film in a recent piece she wrote for the London Review of Books.
The novelist suggested Wilson should have been ‘a wee bit more thoughtful and respectful’ towards a film-maker who may have helped boost her book sales The off-screen drama surrounding Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster version of the Odyssey stepped up a gear overnight, as the novelist Joyce Carol Oat…
LOS ANGELES — Days after a classicist who translated Homer's "The Odyssey" in 2017 eviscerated the Christopher Nolan film based on the poem, Joyce Carol Oates has entered the debate. She's Team Nolan. The National Book Award-winning author is known…
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