![]() We see him through the jaundiced eyes of our narrator, Valdimar Haraldsson, erstwhile author of Memoirs of a Herring Inspector and a 17-volume journal "devoted to my chief preoccupation, the link between fish consumption and the superiority of the Nordic race". ![]() Long-term fans of Sjón, the Icelandic bard whose projects have included lyrics for Björk, volumes of surrealist poetry and several prizewinning novels, will recognise this trademark interweaving of myth and postmodern playfulness.Ĭaeneus, relic from the golden age of heroism, is not, however, the hero of The Whispering Muse. Each evening at dinnertime he tells tales of his 3,000-year-old experiences, prompted by the voice inside a rotten fragment of the Argo's hull, which he holds to his ear like a telephone receiver. T he muse whispers into the ear of Caeneus, once an argonaut questing for the golden fleece, now second mate on a 1940s Danish merchant vessel schlepping paper pulp to Turkey. ![]()
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