6/26/2023 0 Comments Cassandra a novel and four essays![]() ![]() In other words, we still cannot believe what we see. But we go on writing in the forms we are used to. There are perorations against nuclear weapons: ""The thing the anonymous nuclear planning staffs have in mind is unsayable the language which would reach them seems not to exist. This section, though intelligent, draws the Cassandra/modern woman (writer?) parallel almost suffocatingly close. ![]() ![]() Wolf's fictional Cassandra, emotionally if obliquely portrayed, is quite compelling-but the non-fiction essays that follow are very diluting. in the novella that begins the book, Cassandra-the classical seeress who, rebuffing Apollo's advances in her dreams, is fated to have the gift of prophecy but never to be believed-is at once ""the first professional woman"" (taking on priestly duties new to women), a crusader for peace (opposing her father Priam's Trojan war against the Greeks), and the lover of Aeneas yet she is also a cynically traded-for ""object,"" a woman driven ""mad"" by patriarchal folly. Who was Cassandra before people wrote about her?"" Novelist/memoirist Wolf (The Quest for Christs T., A Model Childhood) casts her answer in both a fictional and a non-fictional form. ![]()
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