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Original Title:	Ragnarök: The End of the Gods
ISBN:	1847670644 (ISBN13: 9781847670649)
Edition Language:	English

Ragnarok

A.S. Byatt

Hardcover | Pages: 177 pages

Rating: 3.49 | 4526 Users | 809 Reviews

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Recently evacuated to the British countryside and with World War Two raging around her, one young girl is struggling to make sense of her life. Then she is given a book of ancient Norse legends and her inner and outer worlds are transformed. Intensely autobiographical and linguistically stunning, this book is a landmark work of fiction from one of Britain's truly great writers.

Intensely timely it is a book about how stories can give us the courage to face our own demise. The Ragnarok myth, otherwise known as the Twilight of the Gods, plays out the endgame of Norse mythology.

It is the myth in which the gods Odin, Freya and Thor die, the sun and moon are swallowed by the wolf Fenrir, the serpent Jörmungandr eats his own tail as he crushes the world and the seas boil with poison.

It is only after such monstrous death and destruction that the world can begin anew.
Byatt taken this remarkable finale and used it as the underpinning of this highly personal and politically charged retelling.

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Title	:	Ragnarok
Author	:	A.S. Byatt
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 177 pages
Published	:	September 8th 2011 by Canongate
Categories	:	Fiction. Fantasy. Mythology. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literary Fiction

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Byatt re-read this book as a part of Canongate myth series and managed to make Norse mythology boring - which I thought wasn't possible. A semi-biographical narration goes only so far when the repetitive "that thin child" description becomes irritating. For most part of non-mythological story, I kept thinking, "Why is Byatt referencing to her childhood self as "thin child". Why not the child? Why not anything else?" There isn't a reason unless it was a giant metaphor for war ridden, alienated,

This book would probably be more interesting to those who know nothing, or not much, of Nordic mythology. Since I, as Byatt, read stories from this mythology as a child, I found myself looking for more, perhaps a retelling or an allegory (or more of the story of the 'thin child,' which is Byatt herself), which is exactly what Byatt says in her "Thoughts on Myths" (at the end) she didn't want to write.More than anything else, this novella is Byatt's love-letter to Asgard and the Gods, and shows

Few epilogues have fascinated me as much as Byatts did in this retelling of Ragnarök, the end of the world in Norse Mythology. Instead of trying to attach human traits to the Norse gods to give a modern touch to the original story, Byatt remains faithful to the nature of the myth as such, allowing chaos, destruction and darkness to rule over the deeply flawed, insensitive gods.Using her own childhood memories during World War II, Byatt introduces a nameless thin child who hides away in the pages

This is in the Canongate myths series and is a retelling of the Norse myths. Byatt tells them pretty straight but puts them in the context of her own childhood. Ragnorak is the Norse version of Armageddon (Gotterdammerung in Wagners Ring Cycle) and the retelling is very much as the original. Byatt uses her experience of being evacuated to the countryside at the beginning of the war. In the book the child is only known as the thin child and there is no conversation with anyone else. The myth

I received a digital ARC of this book from the publisher through Netgalley.When I saw this title, I immediately requested it because it combines two of my favorite things: Norse mythology and A.S. Byatt. After doing a little research, I discovered that this is part of Canongate's series of retold world myths by famous novelists. I'm glad I had that little bit of guidance, because I don't know that I would've known what Byatt was trying to do, otherwise.Don't get me wrong. This novella is full of

Ragnarok: The End of The Gods A Re-vieworRagnarok: The Twilight of the ReaderWhile the others in the Cannongate series re-imagined the stories, Byatt reread it. And then told the tale of reading it. Underwhelming? To an extent, yes. But, the Norse myths are magnificent enough to come alive of themselves even when the author decides to color them distant. Byatt gives her reasoning for this approach in the end - saying that she believes myths should not be humanized and the experience of imbibing

Update (8/15/12): A week or so ago I listened to the Audio CD and was impressed - again - with just how good this book is. The reader (whose name I've forgotten) does an excellent job, and I gained a better understanding of what I had read from listening to it.Update (6/6/12): I found the short story I mentioned in my review below. It's from an anthology titled Starlight 3 and called "Wolves Till the World Goes Down," by Greg Van Eekhout. (view spoiler)[It's told from Hugin's POV (Hugin is