Ono-dit-Biot, L'odyssée de l'Odyssée (2026)
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Ono-dit-Biot, L'odyssée de l'Odyssée (2026)

The book of the French journalist and writer Christophe Ono-dit-Biot (368 pages) is written in French. From the presentation: “ “The tempting Sirens, the infamous Cyclops, Circe and her swine, and of course Odysseus, loving husband and enlightened king, who manages after a thousand detours to return home to his faithful wife, reclaim his land, and never leave again... That is what we have always been told about the adventures of Odysseus in The Odyssey. But do people still truly read the 12,000 lines of Homer, or of the one we call Homer? Yet, reading them in the company of a passionate guide like Christophe Ono-dit-Biot means discovering, beyond moralizing and simplistic clichés, a far richer, more sensual, brutal, complex, and captivating universe. The author’s endeavor is direct, generous, and effective: to retell The Odyssey for adults, following the order of the books, in a succession of brief chapters that stay close to the text while recounting the adventures of heroes and heroines, goddesses and gods, but also delving into the profound meaning their contemporaries gave them and the lessons we can draw from them today. We finally understand why The Odyssey, one of the most marvelous literary inventions of all time, still fascinates nearly thirty centuries after it was written down, and how it still helps us navigate through the fogs of our own era; as well as, how to take immense pleasure in it. A wildly novelistic book, with a charming pedagogy and an ever-playful erudition: "gay science" within everyone's reach.“