Odisea

The "Odyssey" recounts the eventful and long return journey of Odysseus (or Ulysses), one of the Achaean heroes of the Trojan War, to his homeland, Ithaca. Episodes such as the encounter with the Cyclopes and Polyphemus, with the Sirens, with the magician Circe or the nymph Calypso, the descent of the hero to the underworld or the passage between Scylla and Charybdis, as well as the revenge that Odysseus carries out on the suitors of his wife, Penelope, are just some of the seeds that have ceaselessly fertilized, since their making, the imagination of men. Conventionally attributed to Homer, the "Odyssey" and the "Iliad" are one of the cornerstones of Western culture. The Odyssey has always been an inexhaustible mine of motifs and images for writers and artists, the present prose version of the work, by Carlos García Gual, offers the reader an approach to the work in a prose of extraordinary smoothness and elegance .