{"product_id":"the-way-to-colonos-sophocles-retold-paperback","title":"The Way to Colonos: Sophocles Retold - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKay Cicellis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRachel Cusk\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fiery modern retelling of three Greek tragedies, \"written in an ageless prose that instantly strikes the reader as the work of a master.\" (Rachel Cusk, from the foreword)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1961, \u003ci\u003eThe Way to Colonos\u003c\/i\u003e recasts three seminal plays by Sophocles into tales of modern women and warfare, probing their characters with savage intimacy. Antigone--a stylish woman in her thirties--wheeling her father, Oedipus, onto the ferry to Colonos, is disgusted by his self-absorption, guilt, and evasions. A suburban Electra dreams of a bloody confrontation with her mother, Clytemnestra, that may never come to pass. Philoctetes, a castaway soldier, navigates shifting allegiances in a guerrilla war that divided Greece after World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Rachel Cusk writes in her foreword to this new edition, Cicellis was a woman before her time, whose work--written in English, her second language--offers particularly \"shocking insight into the secret lives of young women\" and is only now \"free to reach readers with an appetite for female artistic authority, who wish to see the world through sharp fresh eyes.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKay Cicellis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e (1926-2001) was born to Greek parents in Marseilles, where she spent \u003cbr\u003eher first nine years. Having learned French and English in the nursery, \u003cbr\u003eshe spent her later childhood in Athens and on her father's native \u003cbr\u003eisland of Cephalonia. Her first stories, smuggled out of Athens during \u003cbr\u003ethe Nazi occupation, were published in the British military press when \u003cbr\u003eshe was a teenager. Her first story collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Easy Way\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared with an introduction by Vita Sackville-West in 1950. Apart from \u003ci\u003eThe Way to Colonos\u003c\/i\u003e, Cicellis published a second collection, \u003ci\u003eDeath of a Town\u003c\/i\u003e, and two novels, \u003ci\u003eTen Seconds from Now\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNo Name in the Street\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e She went on to become known as the preeminent Greek-English translator \u003cbr\u003eof her time, while working actively to oppose the right-wing \u003cbr\u003edictatorship that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Cusk\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eSecond Place\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eOutline\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy, the memoirs \u003cem\u003eA Life's Work\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAftermath\u003c\/em\u003e, and several other works of fiction and nonfiction. She is a Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in Paris.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 8.35 x 4.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 30, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46154268704954,"sku":"9781946022776","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0768\/5727\/8650\/files\/BWXZfhwNVm9781946022776.webp?v=1783947148","url":"https:\/\/thebookloversatlas.com\/products\/the-way-to-colonos-sophocles-retold-paperback","provider":"The Book Lover's Atlas","version":"1.0","type":"link"}