House of Names

House of Names is a 2017 novel by Colm Tóibín, retelling the legend of the Oresteia, with divine elements largely removed and including a lengthy account of Orestes' absence after the death of Agamemnon.

So it wasn’t the language of them — I mean it wasn't the tone of them that I was using as much but the connection is… and you have speech you can get a funny sort of power with a heightened texture and a sort of eloquence that might come from the notion that the person speaking or writing is only doing them once and may not repeat this… The opposite of mansplaining is where Antigone, Medea, Elektra, Louise Glück, Sylvia Plath … Joan Didion.

So that the poetry I was interested in in those texts – in Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides- was when the woman gets to speak – what that sounds like now.

And I was getting energy from that" [5] Upon release, House of Names was generally well-received.

According to Book Marks, the book received "positive" reviews based on seventeen critic reviews, with eleven being "rave" and one being "positive" and four being "mixed" and one being "pan".