La Casa de Los Nombres / House of Names

Una espléndida interpretación de la Orestíada de Esquilo, por el autor de Brooklyn y Nora Webster. Colm Tóibín retoma la única obra conservada del teatro griego antiguo y la revisa con maravillosa sensibilidad, centrándose en la historia de Clitemnestra, una mujer audaz, capaz de usar los instintos más lujuriosos para orquestar tu venganza y defender su rol de madre. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra—spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling—and her children. "I have been acquainted with the smell of death." So begins Clytemnestra's tale of her own life in ancient Mycenae, the legendary Greek city from which her husband King Agamemnon left when he set sail with his army for Troy. Clytemnestra rules Mycenae now, along with her new lover Aegisthus, and together they plot the bloody murder of Agamemnon on the day of his return after nine years at war. Judged, despised, cursed by gods she has long since lost faith in, Clytemnestra reveals the tragic saga that led to these bloody actions: how her husband deceived her eldest daughter Iphigeneia with a promise of marriage to Achilles, only to sacrifice her because that is what he was told would make the winds blow in his favor and take him to Troy; how she seduced and collaborated with the prisoner Aegisthus, who shared her bed in the dark and could kill; how Agamemnon came back with a lover himself; and how Clytemnestra finally achieved her vengeance for his stunning betrayal—his quest for victory, greater than his love for his child. In House of Names, Colm Tóibín brings a modern sensibility and language to an ancient classic, and gives this extraordinary character new life, so that we not only believe Clytemnestra's thirst for revenge, but applaud it. He brilliantly inhabits the mind of one of Greek myth's most powerful villains to reveal the love, lust, and pain she feels. Told in fours parts, this is a fiercely dramatic portrait of a murderess, who will herself be murdered by her own son, Orestes. It is Orestes' story, too: his capture by the forces of his mother's lover Aegisthus, his escape and his exile. And it is the story of the vengeful Electra, who watches over her mother and Aegisthus with cold anger and slow calculation, until, on the return of her brother, she has the fates of both of them in her hands."

Colm Tóibín (Enniscorthy, 1955) es uno de los mejores escritores irlandeses de nuestro tiempo. De su obra cabe destacar las novelas The Master (2004) y El testamento de María (Lumen, 2014), que se ha convertido en una obra de teatro. Brooklyn, su obra de ficción más conocida, fue publicada por Lumen en 2010 y ahora vuelve a las librerías acompañando la película del mismo título, dirigida por John Crowley. Nora Webster es su novela más reciente. Tóibín Es también un excelente crítico literario, como demuestran las piezas recogidas en el volumen Nuevas maneras de matar a tu madre (Lumen, 2013).