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Grendel is a 1971 novel by American author John Gardner. It is a retelling of part of the Old English poem Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist, Grendel. In the novel, Grendel is portrayed as an antihero. The novel deals with finding Read More..

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Description	Grendel is a 1971 novel by American author John Gardner. It is a retelling of part of the Old English poem Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist, Grendel. In the novel, Grendel is portrayed as an antihero. The novel deals with finding meaning in the world, the power of literature and myth, and the nature of good and evil.In a 1973 interview, Gardner said that "In Grendel I wanted to go through the main ideas of Western Civilization – which seemed to me to be about . . . twelve? – and go through them in the voice of the monster, with the story already taken care of, with the various philosophical attitudes (though with Sartre in particular), and see what I could do, see if I could break out".Joe Don Bellamy & Pat Ensworth, "John Gardner", in Conversations With John Gardner, Allan Chavkin, ed., University Press of Mississippi, 1990, p.10 On another occasion he noted that he "us[ed] Grendel to represent Sartre's philosophical position" and that "a lot of Grendel is borrowed from sections of Sartre's Being and Nothingness.Barry Silesky, John Gardner: Literary Outlaw, Algonquin Books, 2004, p.165Grendel has become one of Gardner's best known and reviewed works. Several editions of the novel contain pen and ink line drawings of Grendel's head, by Emil Antonucci. Ten years after publication, the novel was adapted into the 1981 animated movie Grendel Grendel Grendel.
Description	Grendel is a 1971 novel by American author John Gardner. It is a retelling of part of the Old English poem Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist, Grendel. In the novel, Grendel is portrayed as an antihero. The novel deals with finding meaning in the world, the power of literature and myth, and the nature of good and evil.In a 1973 interview, Gardner said that "In Grendel I wanted to go through the main ideas of Western Civilization – which seemed to me to be about . . . twelve? – and go through them in the voice of the monster, with the story already taken care of, with the various philosophical attitudes (though with Sartre in particular), and see what I could do, see if I could break out".Joe Don Bellamy & Pat Ensworth, "John Gardner", in Conversations With John Gardner, Allan Chavkin, ed., University Press of Mississippi, 1990, p.10 On another occasion he noted that he "us[ed] Grendel to represent Sartre's philosophical position" and that "a lot of Grendel is borrowed from sections of Sartre's Being and Nothingness.Barry Silesky, John Gardner: Literary Outlaw, Algonquin Books, 2004, p.165Grendel has become one of Gardner's best known and reviewed works. Several editions of the novel contain pen and ink line drawings of Grendel's head, by Emil Antonucci. Ten years after publication, the novel was adapted into the 1981 animated movie Grendel Grendel Grendel.

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Name	Grendel (Immo Cowan)
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Authors	John Gardner
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Genre	European MythologyFantasy novelPostmodern literature
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Language	English
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Country	USA
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Pages	174 pages (hardback edition USA) & 144 page (paperback edition UK)
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Media_type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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Isbn	0-394-47143-1
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Oclc	161732
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Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf (USA) & Gollancz (UK)
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Pub_date	1971
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