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Mar. 7th, 2009 01:35 pmI finished Apuleius's The Golden Ass just now on my lunch break at work -- now increasingly translated as Metamorphosis perhaps to avoid the misconception that it's ancient Roman porn. Of course, with Metamorphosis for a title, it could easily be confused with Franz Kafka, or with Ovid (who actually was writing ancient Roman porn).
So it's an 1800-year-plus-old book about a man who decides it'd be a great idea to dabble in witchcraft and accidentally turns himself into a donkey. Like most pre-modern novels, it's more a serial set of adventures -- like a D&D game -- than a single novel. In the end of it, he's saved by the Goddess, in her guise as Isis.
Some thoughts:
( Review continues )
I've now moved on to Margaret Atwood's Payback, her lectures about debt as a cultural and religious and moral phenomenon (as opposed to a purely economic one).
So it's an 1800-year-plus-old book about a man who decides it'd be a great idea to dabble in witchcraft and accidentally turns himself into a donkey. Like most pre-modern novels, it's more a serial set of adventures -- like a D&D game -- than a single novel. In the end of it, he's saved by the Goddess, in her guise as Isis.
Some thoughts:
( Review continues )
I've now moved on to Margaret Atwood's Payback, her lectures about debt as a cultural and religious and moral phenomenon (as opposed to a purely economic one).