NP:Bienveillantes wins Goncourt

[Dave Monroe]

The Erinyes (The Furies),  a.k.a.  The Eumenides (The
Kindly Ones) ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinyes

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/e/eumenides.html

Q. Euripedes?
A. Why, Eumenides?

Cf. T.S. Eliot's The Family Reunion, J.-P. Sartre's
The Flies ...

--- Volker Zimmermann <volker.zimmermann at gmx.net>
wrote:

 
> - "Les Bienveillantes" ("the well-meaning") Are
> Figures from Aristophanes' Drama Cycle about Orest.
> Orest (somehow) kills his mother and is pursued by
> the "Erinyen" (german expression, don't know the EN
> translation right now), who are goddesses of
> revenge. In the end the god Apollo holds judgment
> over Orest and lifts his guilt off of him. Following
> this, the "Erinyen" are Transformed into the
> well-meaning, that is "Les Bienveillantes" in
> French.



 
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