I kinda liked the Luciads, though the three-book not-very-potted history of Portugal got a bit tedious. But then, I was watching how he Camoes bounced off Ariosto and Virgil -- and giggled like mad once I realized that the entire superstructure of pagan dieties had absolutely no effect on the story whatsoever. So incredibly Baroque, that, right down to the parody of Homer.
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Date: 11 August 2006 06:16 pm (UTC)I kinda liked the Luciads, though the three-book not-very-potted history of Portugal got a bit tedious. But then, I was watching how he Camoes bounced off Ariosto and Virgil -- and giggled like mad once I realized that the entire superstructure of pagan dieties had absolutely no effect on the story whatsoever. So incredibly Baroque, that, right down to the parody of Homer.
---L.