Daan Remmerts de Vries

The Adventures of Odysseus

In sparkling prose with a generous helping of humor Remmerts de Vries breathed new life into the old stories in 'The Adventures of Odysseus'. In his work, the Greek heroes don’t battle the outside world – the real struggle is within themselves. His heroes are bodybuilder types. But at the same time he makes clear that fighting lions, centaurs or seven-headed monsters isn’t the real challenge they are up against. Heracles’ real battle, for example, the thing that took all of his strength, ‘was keeping himself in check’.

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The Adventures of Odysseus
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Daan Remmerts de Vries

In his books Daan Remmerts de Vries (b. 1962) humorously holds up a mirror to parents and educators, but also to the children themselves.