{"product_id":"the-way-to-colonos-sophocles-retold-9781946022776","title":"The Way to Colonos: Sophocles Retold","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1961, \u003ci\u003eThe Way to Colonos\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Rachel Cusk writes in her foreword to this new edition, Cicellis was a woman before her time, whose work--written in English, her second language--offers particularly \"shocking insight into the secret lives of young women\" and is only now \"free to reach readers with an appetite for female artistic authority, who wish to see the world through sharp fresh eyes.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kay Cicellis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McNally Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.35h x 4.96w x 1.02d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781946022776\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCicellis, Kay:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKay Cicellis\u003c\/b\u003e (1926-2001) was born to Greek parents in Marseilles, where she spent her first nine years. Having learned French and English in the nursery, she spent her later childhood in Athens and on her father's native island of Cephalonia. Her first stories, smuggled out of Athens during the Nazi occupation, were published in the British military press when she was a teenager. Her first story collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Easy Way\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared with an introduction by Vita Sackville-West in 1950. After \u003ci\u003eThe Way to Colonos\u003c\/i\u003e, Cicellis published a second collection, \u003ci\u003eDeath of a Town\u003c\/i\u003e, and two novels, \u003ci\u003eTen Seconds from Now\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNo Name in the Street\u003c\/i\u003e. She went on to become known as the preeminent Greek-English translator of her time, while working actively to oppose the right-wing dictatorship that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCusk, Rachel:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Cusk\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eSecond Place\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eOutline\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy, the memoirs \u003ci\u003eA Life's Work\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAftermath\u003c\/i\u003e, and several other works of fiction and nonfiction. She is a Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Kay Cicellis \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47532366332061,"sku":"9781946022776","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_33000758-7017-4c51-82ce-3509f478c1f6.jpg?v=1767683388","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-way-to-colonos-sophocles-retold-9781946022776","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}