Author: unknown
Language: Estonian
Format: hardcover
Rating: 1½ stars
Reading challenge: Epic
No of pages: 152
Date read: 01.11 - 03.11.2017
BLURB:
The national bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Award. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the classic Northern epic of a hero’s triumphs as a young warrior and his fated death as a defender of his people. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on, physically and psychically exposed in the exhausted aftermath. It is not hard to draw parallels in this story to the historical curve of consciousness in the twentieth century, but the poem also transcends such considerations, telling us psychological and spiritual truths that are permanent and liberating.
Honestly? It was a struggle for me. If there wasn't this reading challenge point to read an epic, I wouldn't have persisted as long because the poetic style is always a constant battle for me. Even though there was quite a lot going on, I got really bored and almost fell asleep on it two nights a row.
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