The Birth of the World as We Know It: Or Teiresias - Softcover

Meredith Steinbach

9780810150614: The Birth of the World as We Know It: Or Teiresias

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810150611 ISBN 13: 9780810150614

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2012

In her fourth book of fiction, award-winning American novelist Meredith Steinbach reimagines the life of the Greek seer Teiresias. Having outlived everyone he ever knew, the seer looks back at the most significant episodes in his life--a visit to the Delphic oracle, mediating arguments between Hera and Zeus, his experiences as both man and woman--as he confronts the traveler Odysseus in the Underworld. Narrated from shifting points of view with tremendous psychological acuity, Steinbach's novel intertwines time, event, and narrative.

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About the Author:

Meredith Steinbach is the author of novels and collections of fiction: Zara, Here Lies The Water, The Birth of the World as We Know It; or, Teiresias, Reliable Light, and The Charmed Life of Flowers; one play: In the Realm of Which There is No Sign; and a number of works in progress. Prizes and honors have included an O. Henry Award for the Short Story; Bunting Fellowship at Harvard-Radcliffe; 100 Distinguished Stories, Best American Short Stories; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; Pushcart Prize for the Short Story, a grant from the Thomas J. Watson Institute for research in France and Greece; Rhode Island State Artist's Grants, and others. Meredith Steinbach lives with her family in a sea captain's cottage on the Rhode Island coast and is Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University.

From the Back Cover:

In her fourth book of fiction, award-winning American novelist Meredith Steinbach reimagines the life of the Greek seer Teiresias. At the center of Steinbach's comic novel is an exploration of the meaning of time and the nature of identity. Having outlived everyone he ever knew, Teiresias looks back at the most significant episodes in his life - a visit to the Delphic oracle; mediating arguments between Zeus and Hera; his experiences as both man and woman, sighted and blind, prophet and slave - as he confronts the traveler Odysseus in the Underworld.

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