Ragnarok: The End of the Gods by AS Byatt – review

"When AS Byatt agreed to contribute to Canongate's series of updated myths, she chose as her subject the ultimate end, the Scandinavian legend of Ragnarok. This is what Richard Wagner, in the last instalment of his Ring cycle, called the twilight of the gods, who give up regulating nature and allow the world to destroy itself. Because apocalypse overwhelms individual fates, Byatt could hardly follow the example of previous writers in the series, who have extracted characters from the myths and probed their minds..." Read the full review at the Guardian.