Zachary Mason: The Lost Books of the Odyssey [2010] hardback ZCULT Mark E Smith

Mark E Smith

It can happen by accident

right up to the attic

he shares his mother's sense of snobbish propriety

Zachary Mason: The Lost Books of the Odyssey [2010] hardback ZCULT Mark E SmithIn the plain outside the walls of Troy, Agamemnon demands a fortress. With no materials except a few trees and unlimited sand, the Greeks dig a negative image of a palace into the white plain: a vast, inverted castle soaring into the depths of the earth. After ten years' journeying Odysseus returns, again and again, to Ithaca. Each time he finds something different: his patient wife Penelope has betrayed him and married; his arrival accelerates time