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Writers Spar Over ‘The Odyssey’: Joyce Carol Oates Slams Emily Wilson’s ‘Crude’ Christopher Nolan Diss
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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…Christopher Nolan and his Matt Damon-led blockbuster “The Odyssey” have a fan in Joyce Carol Oates.
“Her tone of dismissal and haughty superiority strike a sour note,” Carol Oates wrote on X, responding to a follower who argued Wilson would’ve been “hostile to any adaptation” of Homer’s epic poem.
“Rather than disagreeing with interpretations of Homer in a collegial manner, this person, who has benefited enormously from Nolan’s film, speaks in the crude language of MAGA folks attacking someone with ideas that differ from hers,” the author continued.
“Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ lacks many of the elements that make the poem great,” Wilson’s scathing review continues.
Carol Oates, meanwhile, sang Nolan’s praises on Wednesday and also recommended fans watch the 1997 miniseries co-produced by Francis Ford Coppola.