The Wanderer ( The World's Desire , “Dream of Peace”) is an adventure novel co-written by Henry Ryder Haggard and Andrew Lang . Published in 1889, continued in The New Rewiew magazine . Substantially - a free fantasy on the theme of the adventures of Odysseus , which in the novel is mainly called "Wanderer" [1] .
| Wanderer | |
|---|---|
| The world's desire | |
| Genre | novel |
| Author | Henry Ryder Haggard , Andrew Lang |
| Original language | English |
| Date of writing | 1889 |
| Date of first publication | 1889 |
| Publishing house | |
Content
Story
Odysseus returns home to Ithaca after his second long journey. He hopes to find "at home peace and quiet, a faithful, beloved wife and his worthy son." But he does not find anything. Instead, his house was devastated by the plague and his wife Penelope was killed by her, and the son of Telemachus disappeared without a trace. Grieving, he left his house devastated by the plague and earthquake. Having visited the old temple of Aphrodite , he, unexpectedly for himself, met the goddess. At her insistence, Odysseus embarks on a long and difficult journey in search of the first love of his youth - Elena Troyanskaya . Having arrived in Egypt shortly after the death of the great pharaoh of the XIX dynasty of Ramses II , under the pharaoh Merneptah , he met Queen Empress Meriamun, met Elena, observed the outcome of the Jews and entered into battle with the Strigrigs , whom the author identified with the "peoples of the sea" [1] .
History of creation. Literary features
In the 1880s, Andrew Lang and Ryder Haggard decided to create a joint work that would meet the interests of both. Lang was the translator of the Odyssey into English, and in 1885 published a poem about Helena of Troy; these characters, it was decided to combine in one plot and place it in Ancient Egypt. Lang outlined the general plot and single-handedly wrote the first four chapters and the epilogue of the novel. The literary style of the text was influenced by Lang's translation experiments, which sought to make Haggard's flowery epithets more rigorous [2] . After the publication was launched in The New Review (in April 1889), the novel was criticized by James Barry , who stated that real co-authorship in the literature, implying that the two authors become one, is impossible. Most reviewers rated the advantages of the novel low [3] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Sutherland J. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction . - Stanford University Press, 1990. - P. 681. - 696 p. - ISBN 0804718423 .
- ↑ Koestenbaum, 1990 , p. 154.
- ↑ Higgins, DS Rider Haggard: A Biography. New York: Stein and Day, 1983 .-- P. 143.
Literature
- Koestenbaum W. Double talk: the erotics of male literary collaboration . - L .: Routledge, 1990 .-- 214 p. - ISBN 041590109X .
Links
- The World's Desire in the Gutenberg project .