Galatea
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In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece – the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen – the gift of life. Now his wife, Galatea is expected to be obedience and humility personified, but it is not long before she learns to use her beauty as a form of manipulation. In a desperate bid by her obsessive husband to keep her under control, she is locked away under the constant supervision of doctors and nurses. But with a daughter to rescue, she is determined to break free, whatever the cost...
Pygmalion's story has moved millions through the centuries, inspiring George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, and later the beloved musical My Fair Lady. Ecco is proud to publish Orange Prize-winning author Madeline Miller’s E-book original short story Galatea which will appear in the forthcoming anthology xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths to be published in October. This retelling of the Pygmalion myth from the statue’s perspective is a tale that will make readers rethink how they relate to the great myths of our time.
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“I wasn't expecting this kind of story. It's not bad but I thought we were going to start the story the moment Galatea becomes alive. Instead, we are 10 years after her transformation. This is still well done because the myth's point of view is finally female and it makes so much sense that Pygmalion is just an incel who doesn't love women. He just wanted a quiet girl who never talks and is dedicated to him and his dirty mind ; he thought Galatea would have stayed a kind of doll that you can f**k, but that's not what being a woman is. In the end, the story is absolutely sad, disgusting and I feel so angry at Pygmalion. It is clever to retell a myth like Madeline Miller did for this one, but I wished I have more of it because I felt like it was missing something. Galatea seems to be more complex than the writing appeared. It is a nice short story which really kicked me in, but I feel there could be more material.”About Madeline Miller
Madeline Miller is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Song of Achilles and Circe, and the short story Galatea. Her books have been translated into forty languages. Miller studied in the Dramaturgy department at Yale School of Drama, where she focused on the adaptation of classical texts to modern forms, and has an MA in Classics from Brown University.
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