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Submitted URL:
https://www.goodreads.com/gp/r.html?C=3B3EMV9XIG73J&K=2NQ6TP5NCWP4M&M=urn:rtn:msg:202109080917221c79a5a4de53442ea35f7124e1...
Effective URL:
https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2181-13-contemporary-riffs-and-retellings-of-classic-tales?rto=x_gr_e_nl_general
Submission: On September 08 via api (September 8th 2021, 1:01:24 pm UTC) from BE — Scanned from DE

Form analysis
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13 CONTEMPORARY RIFFS AND RETELLINGS OF CLASSIC TALES


Posted by Sharon on August 27, 2021
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When it comes to retellings of literary classics, there are the books that
follow the original tales closely (think 2018's smash hit Circe) and then there
are the novels that take off in a wildly different direction, like pulling the
story forward into the present day or changing its genre entirely. To celebrate
the sheer gutsiness of the latter group, we've rounded up 13 incredibly
inventive classic retellings published in the past five years.

From winners of prestigious literary awards to genre rewrites, these novels all
bring brand new perspective to beloved old stories. So read on if you've got a
hankering for a blood-sucking Jay Gatsby, a Japanese American take on Jane
Austen, a Northern Irish Achilles during The Troubles, and more. And don't
forget to add the books that catch your eye to your Want to Read shelf!


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Quichotte
by Salman Rushdie
Ismail Smile, a reality-TV-obsessed traveling salesman, reinvents himself as
Quichotte and takes off on a quest across the United States to win the hand of
an actress in this zany, genre-bending take on Miguel de Cervantes' Don
Quixote. But wait, there's more! Turns out Smile/Quichotte is the invention of
one Sam DuChamp, a writer of mediocre spy thrillers, in this self-referential
book-within-a-book about the enticing and dangerous power of stories. Like we
said: Zany!
 


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Home Fire
by Kamila Shamsie
Every family's got its issues, but when your family makes up the cast of a
modern-day version of Antigone, well, then you've Got Issues. Now that her twin
siblings are grown up, Isma finally feels free to pursue her dreams in America.
But back home in London, her sister Aneeka and brother Parvaiz are under the
surveillance of the British government as they find themselves involved in
circumstances that spin rapidly out of control.
 


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Ducks, Newburyport
by Lucy Ellmann
The final episode of James Joyce's Ulysses (itself a rewrite of Homer's Odyssey)
is famously narrated in eight very long sentences. With Ducks, Newburyport, Lucy
Ellmann tells Joyce to hold her beer as she recounts the inner monologue of an
Ohio housewife over a single sentence spanning nearly a thousand pages. Yep,
it's the kind of epic riff that's either Absolutely Up Your Alley or Very Much
Not Your Thing.
 


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The Portrait of a Mirror
by A. Natasha Joukovsky
The myth of Narcissus meets our modern social media age? A match made in book
heaven! This self-assured 2021 debut follows the grand tradition of displaying
pretty people behaving badly. If that sounds too dour, the book also offers a
dollop of art history, a satirical send-up of tech culture, and a strange
adventure with a dog (don't worry, the dog lives) to keep matters on the lighter
side.
 


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An Orchestra of Minorities
by Chigozie Obioma
Move over, Muses, this 2019 Booker Prize-nominated rewrite of The Odyssey is
narrated by the chi, or guardian spirit, of its main character, a Nigerian
chicken farmer named Chinonso. Nonso meets the girl of his dreams, but her
family's disapproval causes him to seek his fortune abroad. Predictably,
a series of mishaps follows that leads him further and further from home.
 


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The Days of Afrekete
by Asali Solomon
Publishing this October, The Days of Afrekete follows two women over the course
of a single day. One of them is preparing to throw a dinner party, in Mrs.
Dalloway-esque fashion, while the other is haunted by the past. Besides the
callback to Virginia Woolf, the novel also is also reported to be inspired by
Toni Morrison's Sula and Audre Lorde's Zami. Now that's a hat trick of
incredible literary predecessors if we ever saw one!
 


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Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
by Andrea Lawlor
If further experiments featuring Virginia Woolf's novels are up your alley, try
this 2019 bildungsroman that sweeps readers back to America's gay scene in 1993.
Like Woolf's Orlando, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl features a
gender-bending shapeshifter of a protagonist through whom the novel examines
bodies, desire, and sexuality.
 


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The Chosen and the Beautiful
by Nghi Vo
"What if The Great Gatsby, but a little bit magical?" is the premise of Nghi
Vo's standout retelling in a year full of takes on the classic, which just
entered the public domain. Vo rewrites minor character Jordan Baker as a queer,
adopted, Asian socialite making her way through a series of gin- and
blood-soaked Jazz Age parties. If you've ever thought Fitzgerald's story could
be improved by making Jay Gatsby a bisexual vampire, well, you're in for a real
treat.
 


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The Mere Wife
by Maria Dahvana Headley
This 2018 retelling of Beowulf posits that there's nothing more epic than the
quiet rage of modern womanhood. In this version, Grendel's mother is a war
veteran living on the outskirts of Herot Hall, a suburban paradise of white
picket fences and immaculately kept houses (and housewives). (Fun fact, Dahvana
Headley also published a verse translation of Beowulf last year!)
 


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Sansei and Sensibility
by Karen Tei Yamashita
The second half of Karen Tei Yamashita's (I Hotel) incredibly titled Sansei and
Sensibility features short story retellings of Jane Austen novels that are
populated by Japanese American characters. Think Mr. Darcy as the captain of his
high school football team, Mansfield Park as a Los Angeles suburb, that sort of
thing. 
 


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The Wife Upstairs
by Rachel Hawkins
Stop us if you've heard this one before: a young woman named Jane gets involved
with a brooding man whose first wife disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
In this contemporary riff on Jane Eyre, Rachel Hawkins drops Thornfield Hall
into the middle of Birmingham, Alabama, and gives Jane her own enigmatic
backstory that puts the thrill in "domestic thriller."
 


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Country
by Michael Hughes
If The Iliad taught us anything, it's that soldiers get pretty tired of wars
that drag on and on. In Country, Michael Hughes brilliantly transposes war-weary
Achilles to Northern Ireland, circa 1996. In the waning days of The Troubles,
IRA sniper Achill just wants to lay down his gun and take an early retirement,
but the members of his squad hatch other, bloodier plans. 
 


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Everything Under
by Daisy Johnson
Told in three different timelines, this 2018 Booker Prize nominee follows
lexicographer Gretel as she attempts to unravel the reasons for her mother's
disappearance when Gretel was a teen. Naming the story that the novel is based
on would be a bit of a spoiler, but we can tell you it's a tragedy of the Greek
variety...


Which of these retellings have you read and which ones catch your eye? Let's
talk books in the comments!

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message 1: by Shirley (new)
27. August, 05:34 Uhr

My only question is Why.? This reminds me of film and tv reboots which are
totally non-sensical. Why does anyone want to reboot a classic book that has
stood the test of time? Does no one have original ideas anymore? Have we lost
our creative thinkers, dreamers and artists!? Tell me, would anyone attempt to
do a re-make of The Mona Lisa, Les Miserables, Chekhov’sThe Cherry Orchard, the
Sistine Chapel or the Taj Mahal?


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message 2: by Katy (new)
27. August, 05:42 Uhr

@Shirley Schwartz I can see where you’re coming from but a lot of the time,
these retellings can make you consider books from different perspectives. Like
The Woman Upstairs for example. Readers of Jane Eyre are usually sympathetic for
Jane and Mr Rochester as they’re the leading couple, but they fail to consider
the poor woman in the attic, who was possibly driven mad by Rochester’s neglect
and who has to hide in the attic.


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message 3: by Jim (new)
27. August, 07:12 Uhr

It's rather an indictment of how White the book world is that all the retellings
- regardless of the sex, gender, or race of the authors - are based on originals
by White authors.


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message 4: by Baladine (new)
27. August, 07:46 Uhr

@ Shirley Schwartz, Also many of the classics while they have withstood the
tests of time are inaccessible to so many readers. Isn't it better to get the
underlying themes of these stories to as many readers as possible? Why gatekeep
reading?


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message 5: by Alex (new)
27. August, 09:06 Uhr

@Jim if you don’t like reading classic books by white authors then don’t read
them. Not many are reading ulysses or George Eliot anymore. That’s not an
indictment of the book world.


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message 6: by Shirley (new)
27. August, 10:24 Uhr

Alex wrote: "@Jim if you don’t like reading classic books by white authors then
don’t read them. Not many are reading ulysses or George Eliot anymore. That’s
not an indictment of the book world."

Baladine wrote: "@ Shirley Schwartz, Also many of the classics while they have
withstood the tests of time are inaccessible to so many readers. Isn't it better
to get the underlying themes of these stories to as ma..."

It's not about the story or the author. It's about good literature with a
timeless story told by a master. Colour does not matter in this instance. A Fine
Balance was written by Rohinton Mistry. Thought Black Spruce was written by
Joseph Boyden - an indigenous writer. Two of my favourite current authors are
Khaled Hosseini and Jhumpa Lahiri. I love Russian novelists like Fyodor
Dostoyeski and Leo Tolstoy. The Iliad and the Odyssey were written by Homer - an
ancient Greek philosopher.


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message 7: by Kay Dee (last edited 27. August, 11:10 Uhr) (new)
27. August, 11:08 Uhr

i think i read somewhere that somebody said there are only 4-5 stories in the
world. we just keep retelling them in different ways.
(https://www.autocrit.com/blog/7-stori...)

as far as race...goodreads is only sorta international. it really is an English
based USA &UK service.

usually if the books are classic English stories, then they are white or
European based. Japan, Korea, China, and India have many books they consider
classic literature that Westerners are not taught about. African nations'
classic stories were mostly oral but many have been transcribed. Islam is an
ancient religion and spread across many non European countries. they have many
works considered classic as well.

so of course this list will be mostly retellings of classics by white authors.


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message 8: by Valerie (new)
27. August, 13:55 Uhr

Katy wrote: "@Shirley Schwartz I can see where you’re coming from but a lot of
the time, these retellings can make you consider books from different
perspectives. Like The Woman Upstairs for example. Readers of..."

This was the basis of the novel Wide Sagasso Sea by Jean Rhys. An excellent
book.


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message 9: by Thom (new)
27. August, 20:45 Uhr

Jim wrote: "It's rather an indictment of how White the book world is that all
the retellings - regardless of the sex, gender, or race of the authors - are
based on originals by White authors."

What's telling is the ignorance of such comments. No one is stopping anyone from
writing a crap version of The Garies and Their Friends.


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message 10: by Thom (new)
27. August, 20:46 Uhr

Shirley wrote: "My only question is Why.? This reminds me of film and tv reboots
which are totally non-sensical. Why does anyone want to reboot a classic book
that has stood the test of time? Does no one have orig..."

Totally agree. This sort of thing simply goes to show how little imagination or
original talent there is out there today. Remakes of films, songs, now books.
BORRRING!!!


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message 11: by jude (new)
27. August, 20:59 Uhr

Shirley wrote: "My only question is Why.? This reminds me of film and tv reboots
which are totally non-sensical. Why does anyone want to reboot a classic book
that has stood the test of time? Does no one have orig..."

this is a very bizarre position to take. do you even know how many retellings
and remixings exist in the so-called literary canon? james joyce's ulysses is a
retelling of homer's odyssey; milton's paradise lost is a retelling of the
bible; dante's divine comedy features writing himself besides virgil, who wrote
the aeneid, which is itself a continuation of homer's iliad; borges made great
use of the theseus and minotaur myth in his story, "the house of asterion".

do you honestly believe that all these authors are not "creative thinkers" due
to the simple fact that they wrote retellings? do you think they were lacking
for original ideas? would you dismiss all these great works, called by many
literary critics as genuine masterpieces, all because they rebooted something
that already existed before?


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message 12: by Nadine (new)
28. August, 10:11 Uhr

Shirley wrote: "My only question is Why.? This reminds me of film and tv reboots
which are totally non-sensical. Why does anyone want to reboot a classic book
that has stood the test of time? Does no one have orig..."


Seriously? Great Literature is FULL of retellings. Half of Shakespeare is a
retelling of an older story.


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29 forms found in the DOM