Oresteia tana da wannan aikin mara mutuwa. Tsarewarta mara kyau daga tsohuwar Girka har zuwa yau, ta sanya ta zama hanyar haɗi tare da asalin wayewar mu, tashar sadarwa tare da waccan duniyar da abin ya fara.
Kuma kamar yadda faɗin Latin ya karanta: «Nihil novum sub sole», fassarar wannan littafin Gidan Suna, na Colm TóibinYana tunatar da mu daidai cewa, babu wani sabon abu a ƙarƙashin rana. Gidan wasan kwaikwayon wanda haruffan Oriestíada na Aeschylus suka wuce ya kasance iri ɗaya a yau. Domin, ambaton Terence a wannan lokacin: Homo sum; humani nihil a me fucking alienum. A takaice dai, babu abin da ɗan adam ba baƙo ba ne.
Daga ɗan adam na farko har zuwa wanda ya furta ban kwana na ƙarshe, za mu kasance iri ɗaya, motsin rai iri ɗaya, raɗaɗi iri ɗaya da son zuciya, buri ɗaya, ƙiyayya iri ɗaya da ƙauna iri ɗaya kamar yadda kawai ke da ikon haɗa komai.
Ko ta yaya, a zahiri, yana da haɗari koyaushe don ziyartar wani na gargajiya kuma cire wasu daga cikin patina ɗin don ya yi daidai da lokacin yanzu. Ilimi mai yawa na niyya a bayan wani aiki na yau da kullun na wannan zurfin yana ba da damar wannan fassarar sihiri na ji da niyyar marubucin.
Amma babu shakka Colm Toíbín ya yi nasara. Buga maɓallin. Ya yi nasarar zaɓar mafi girman hali a cikin wasan: Clytemnestra, mace da mahaifiyar da ke cike da ɓacin rai kuma suna buƙatar adalci na ƙarshe. Nunawa don shiga cikin ruhin wannan ɗabi'ar mace ta shekara dubu yana ba wannan fassarar lakabin fitacciyar.
A sakamakon haka, muna samun makircin da za mu yi noma da shi yayin da muke rayar da Tarihin tsoffin kakanninmu, wannan tarihin da aka ƙawata cikin almara da almara da Oriestíada ya kawo a zamaninmu.
Yanzu zaku iya siyan novel ɗin Gidan sunaye, sabon littafin Colm Tóibín, a nan: