Omeros : Editorial Anagrama : 9788433924094 : 8433924095 : 25 Jun 2024 : Among the various avatars that the legendary aura of Homer and his work have known throughout the history of English letters, perhaps the two most astonishing are Joyce's Ulysses and Walcott's Omeros. As in the Iliad ("Omeros" is Homer's name "in the ancient language of the islands"), invoked by a Greek girl, Antigone, exiled in America), the story begins with the rivalry for the love of a woman. She is not a princess but a black Antillean maid, and those who fight for her are not kings but fishermen, but Helena's face is one of those in which the gods "consecrate all the beauty of a race." She loves Achilles but leaves him for Hector, and one day when the town is preparing for a party, the spurned lover sets sail from Santa Lucía and in an initiatory dream and a journey through centuries, is returned to the land of his ancestors, on the west coast of Africa. And while Achilles goes after his roots, another key ch