Stories Out of Omarie - Wendy Walker

Stories Out of Omarie by Wendy Walker / ISBN 9780940650053 / small 311-page paperback, published by Green Integer

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“The words slid off his tongue in a dazzle of pleasure which only heightened when he spoke of the Queen.” —from ”The Twin Knots”

Wendy Walker retells eight of The Lais of Marie de France, a proto-feminist poem cycle written in England in the 12th century. Her style is as refined as Arthurian romance, yet as iconoclastic as Marie’s knights, whose adventures mainly serve to help ladies find lovers.

Walker amplifies Marie’s progressive views, while adding a touch of the postmodern, such as structuring the first story, “The Passing of Graelent,” after a tapestry in the Cluny Museum that disrupts its narrative with decorative panels.

Walker amplifies Marie’s progressive views, while adding a touch of the postmodern, such as structuring the first story, “The Passing of Graelent,” after a tapestry in the Cluny Museum that disrupts its narrative with decorative panels.