THE HANDMAID’S TALE Margaret Atwood
Tertulias literarias Literatur Solasaldiak Literary Circle
Errenteriako Biblioteka 2019 / 02 / 20
Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa, and grew up in northern Ontario and Quebec, and in Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master’s degree from Radcliffe College. Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her latest book of short stories is Stone Mattress: Nine Tales (2014). The Door is her latest volume of poetry (2007). Her most recent non-fiction books are Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (2008) and In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (2011). Her novels include The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Robber Bride, Cat’s Eye, The Handmaid’s Tale and The Penelopiad. Her new novel, Hag-Seed, was published in 2016. Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.
Selected Works Novels ·(1969) The Edible Woman ·(1972) Surfacing ·(1988) Cat's Eye ·(1996) Alias Grace ·(2003) Oryx and Crake
Non-Fiction ·(2002) Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing ·(2008) Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth ·(2011) In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
The handmaid's tale The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel, originally published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England, in a totalitarian state resembling a theonomy, which has overthrown the United States government. The novel focuses on the journey of the handmaid Offred. Her name derives from the possessive form "of Fred"; handmaids are forbidden to use their birth names and must echo the male, or master, whom they serve. The Handmaid's Tale explores themes of women in subjugation in a patriarchal society and the various means by which these women attempt to gain individualism and independence.
Reviews The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel, originally published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England, in a totalitarian state resembling a theonomy, which has overthrown the United States government. The novel focuses on the journey of the handmaid Offred. Her name derives
from the possessive form "of Fred"; handmaids are forbidden to use their birth names and must echo the male, or master, whom they serve. The Handmaid's Tale explores themes of women in subjugation in a patriarchal society and the various means by which these women attempt to gain individualism and independence.
Interesting links ·Official Web: ·http://margaretatwood.ca
·Margaret Atwood on How She Came to Write The Handmaid's Tale: ·https://lithub.com/margaret-atwood-on-how-she-came-to-write-the-handmaids-
tale/
·The Paris Review, Margaret Atwood, The Art of Fiction No.121: ·https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6012/ray-bradbury-the-art-of-fiction-
no-203-ray-bradbury
·Our coordinator´s blog (ENG/ESP) ·https://donostiabookclub.blogspot.com