Atwood tempest7/7/2023 ![]() I was fretful, therefore, when my book club settled on Hag-Seed for our next read. ![]() But who says irritability has to be entirely consistent?) (I realize, of course, that many classics are themselves, in one way or another, indebted to or homages to other texts. Too often, the intent is too clearly to cash in, or the results are too clearly inferior to the inspiration, and I am left wishing authors would just write their own d–n books. ![]() Hag-Seed is one of a series of novels commissioned for the Hogarth Shakespeare project, which is just the kind of hybrid literary-commercial venture that usually puts me off - and which, in its Austen incarnation, I have recently sworn off altogether. Especially bad, considering the captive audience. He hoped she wouldn’t ask him about the theme: vengeance was so negative, was what she’d say. “Also,” said Felix, “it’s on a universal theme.” What he had in mind was vengeance – that was certainly universal. ![]()
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