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graywacke 's review for:
Troilus and Criseyde
by Geoffrey Chaucer
funny
slow-paced
This Broadview Press edition is fantastic. Original language with notes.
Everything I read about this led to me expect some deep Christian-era-friendly thoughts. This is supposed to be Chaucer's one serious effort at artistry. But this is funny, elegant and funny. The tone is just always playful, as playful as the language. The best character, Pandarus, is a gamer through and through. The game is how to get his niece linked to the number 1 bachelor is Troy. Troilus is ridiculous, spineless and roiling in bed in lovesickness. Criseyde ultimately practical. She's a convincing lover, and this reader was left thinking I never got her right, that it was never clear where her true feelings lay.
Anyway, a book that I paced at 5 or more minutes a page, with pages and pages for a single dialogue from on character. Plot and character are really not the point. Language is. And it's linguistically something to relish and enjoy.
Everything I read about this led to me expect some deep Christian-era-friendly thoughts. This is supposed to be Chaucer's one serious effort at artistry. But this is funny, elegant and funny. The tone is just always playful, as playful as the language. The best character, Pandarus, is a gamer through and through. The game is how to get his niece linked to the number 1 bachelor is Troy. Troilus is ridiculous, spineless and roiling in bed in lovesickness. Criseyde ultimately practical. She's a convincing lover, and this reader was left thinking I never got her right, that it was never clear where her true feelings lay.
Anyway, a book that I paced at 5 or more minutes a page, with pages and pages for a single dialogue from on character. Plot and character are really not the point. Language is. And it's linguistically something to relish and enjoy.