‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster | Film
Emily Wilson, the classicist whose 2017 translation of Homer’s Odyssey was cited by Christopher Nolan in early publicity for his vastly profitable adaptation of the poem, has roundly criticised the movie, saying “it has nothing convincing to say” and that its “lacks psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth”. In a scathing essay for the London…