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Todd Clary (not verified) says:

Is it not worth commenting on the fact that Ms. Gilligan's novel is wholly derivative of the 4th book of Virgil's Aeneid, the story of Aeneas, not Andreas.

The best parts of her book are the one's that are the most derivative.

When Andreas comes back (Virgil's Dido and Aeneas only meet again in Hell when she, as a ghost, refuses to speak to him and is with her former husband) in Gilligan's novel is when she steers away from her classical model. Not coincidentally the most criticized part of Kira.

February 01, 2008 11:47 AM
 

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