This month, the Literary Baddies Book Club returns to the source, i.e. Homer’s The Odyssey, one of the founding texts of Western literature and arguably the first portrait of a hero you’re not sure you should be rooting for.
We’ll be discussing Odysseus’s particular brand of moral complexity : the lying, the surviving at everyone else’s expense, the gods who make everyone a little bit innocent and a little bit doomed.
Also : Christopher Nolan’s adaptation hits cinemas this week, and we’re definitely going.
Anyone is welcome regardless of finishing the book — or the epic poem, or the past three millennia of discourse — but beware of spoilers.