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The Innkeeper's Song (1993)

di Peter S. Beagle

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Serie: Innkeeper's World (1)

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With Innkeeper's Song, Beagle has created a world of magic & mystery in which the impossible happens & the familiar fantasy device of quest & doom is given a new twist. Previous novels by Beagle include The Last Unicorn & A Fine & Private Place.
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The consequences of three strange women stopping at an inn are recounted, in alternating chapters, by Lal, a sailor and swordswoman searching for her old mentor; by Lukassa, inadvertently raised from the dead by Lal; by Nyateneri, a woman being chased by assassins; by Tikat, chasing his lover Lukassa; by Rosseth, the worshipful stable boy; by the Fox, Nyateneri's mysterious shape-changing companion; by Karsh, the bitterly singing innkeeper himself; and by the other curious inhabitants of Karsh's inn.

The Innkeeper's Song is rich and complicated and features the best description ever for pigeons (courtesy of the fox): rumblysoft. I loved Beagle's The Last Unicorn, and this is better than The Last Unicorn (if only because The Last Unicorn failed to have a foursome). ( )
  proustbot | Jun 19, 2023 |
Ahhh, was für ein Buch! Wenn ich könnte, würde ich jetzt einen tiefen Sufzer des Behagens ausstoßen, wie wenn man gerade einen Becher Wein abgesetzt hat, tiefrot mit geheimnisvollen Reflexen nach Blut und Tod und Liebe, mit Gerüchen nach fernen Ländern, heißen Sommernd, staubigen Strassen und gemütlichen Gasthäusern an einsamen Starssenkreuzungen, mit einer Vielzahl an Geschmäcken, erdig, fruchtig schmeichelnd aber auch etwas metallisch-schneidend, aber bei aller Komplexität trotzdem rund und wie aus einem Guß ... ahhhh, was für ein Buch!

Ein kurze Zusammenfassung des Buches könnte so lauten: ein alter Zauberer und zwei frühere Schüler kämpfen gegen einen anderen früheren Schüler, der in einem faustischen Pakt sein Leben gegen die dunkle Seite der Macht eingetauscht hat. Das ist soweit richtig, aber wiederum auch völlig am Buch vorbei, denn es geht um so viel mehr: Liebe und Hass, Geschichten und Gesang, Verpflichtung und Verantwortung, Tod und Wiederauferstehung.

Es gibt Bücher, die sind wie ein Milchshake, man trinkt sie in einem Zug, denkt "lecker" und ist schon auf dem Weg zur nächsten Zerstreuung. Dieses Buch will gut gekaut sein, es ist nahrhaft wie ein Schwarzbrot mit allerlei Nüssen und Trockenfrüchten. Das liegt nicht zuletzt auch am Schreibstil: das Buch ist in viele dutzend kleinere Kapitel unterteilt, die aus immer wieder wechselnden Perspektiven in der ersten Person geschrieben sind, alle Hauptpersonen kommen immer wieder reihum zu Wort. Normalerweise halten ich von solchen erzähltechnischen Taschenspielertricks nichts, aber Peter S. Beagle ist einfach ein Meister des Geschichtenerzählens (und er war es schon bei seinem ersten Buch "A fine and private place", das er mit 19 Jahren geschrieben hat!) und hier funktionieren diese dauernd wechselnden Perspektiven völlig natürlich.

Beagle hat hier so viele Geschichten, Details, Motive, Anspielungen in 350 Seiten untergebracht, dass es bei vielen anderen Autoren für eine 2000 seitige Trilogie gereicht hätte (die aber deswegen keinen Deut besser gewesen wäre).

Ein Buch voller Überraschungen und Wendungen; das Buch fesselt einen von der ersten Seite, aber nach einem Drittel weiss man immer noch nicht, worauf das Buch eigentlich zusteuert, Personen erweisen sich als etwas völlig anderes, als was man gedacht hat, und dann kommt eine der überraschensten, seltsamsten und schönsten Liebesszenen, die ich je gelesen habe.

Auch wenn hier scheinbar eine Menge altbekannter Fantasy-Motive auftauchen - der alte weise Zauberer (hallo Gandalf, hallo Dumbledore), der fehlgeleitete Zauberlehrling (Faust und Voldemort lassen grüßen), tapfere Kriegerinnen und dicke Wirte (ja Barliman, wir denken an dich) - ist das Buch doch völlig eigenständig und abseits aller gängigen Klischees; für mich jetzt schon ein Klassiker, den ich sicher wieder hervorholen werde. ( )
  MrKillick-Read | Apr 4, 2021 |
Long before this book came out, Peter Beagle composed "The Innkeeper's Song" about a baffled innkeeper recounting a brief stay by three very strange female adventurers who depart taking with them the inn' s stable boy. The song is delightful and many Beagle fans including me long awaited the novel based on the song. On getting it , I must admit i was so repulsed I have yet (after 20 years) to finish it. What put me off was a very mixed very graphic sex scene which just didn't fit my image of the work of the author of The Last Unicorn. Frankly, there are writers whose sex scenes I can enjoy (Cecilia Holland for instance) but somehow Beagle is not one of them I freely admit that by 1993 it is reasonable to expect more mature content than it was when Last Unicorn came out, but somehow I just can't wrap my mind around this instance of it. It is like discovering a favorite uncle is really a secret pedophile. ( )
  antiquary | Nov 1, 2016 |
Like several million people, I read 'The Last Unicorn' when it was the big thing (probably around when the movie came out; not when it was first published - I'm not THAT old) - still, it was years ago, I don't remember it that clearly, but it just didn't really strike me for whatever reason. Since then, Beagle's writing hasn't really been on my radar - but I'm going to have to change that.

I got this book after reading Beagle's short story 'Chandail' in the anthology 'Salon Fantastique,' and loving it. I was delighted to learn there was more set in the same world.
One of the main characters in this is the woman in 'Chandail' and it was wonderful to learn a bit more of her background and history.

As a novel, on its own - there is absolutely nothing wrong with this book at all. I have no criticism. It does what the best fantasy does: creates a story of real people, real emotions, believable conflict and drama - while tying it in to myth and mythology, using symbolism and classic tropes to tell something entirely new. I'm impressed - and will be seeking out more of Beagle's work.

Three women ride into town... the dark warrior Lal, the nut-brown Nyateneri, cloaked in religious robes, and the pale and resurrected Lukassa. They are pursued by a lover, and they are pursued by assassins. In turn, they pursue a lost friend; and a powerful wizard. The inn where they take rooms will never be the same... and especially, life will never be the same for the innkeeper's boy, Rosseth.



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1 vota AltheaAnn | Feb 9, 2016 |
This wasn’t a book I was really suited for. It’s slow paced and lyrically written. “Sedate” might be a good word to describe it. I had to struggle to keep with it.

Three strange women arrive at an inn, searching for a wizard two of them once knew. The story’s told from many different perspectives – the women, the innkeeper, the stable boy, a boy who’s searching for his dead fiancee, and a shape shifting fox are the main POV characters, although there’s a few others like the barmaid or the pot boy. Some of them have very distinctive voices – the fox and the innkeeper’s chapters were always interesting for this reason. Others blend together.

My appreciation of the book varies by scene. There was one truly excellent sequence where Lal, one of the women, used the power of storytelling to win a fight. However, the ending was very mystical and vague, sort of like a Robin McKinley book. Then there was something like twenty pages spent on a (non-graphic) multi-person sex scene that felt largely unnecessary.

It is very well written. If there’s one thing about Peter S. Beagle, it’s that he can write. But I kept catching myself drifting away whenever I was trying to read it. It was hard for me to stay focused on the text. There’s probably a lot of thematic stuff that’s flying over my head, and to understand it I’d probably have to read it again, which I won’t be doing.

There’s definitely people out there who would like this book. I’m just not sure who. People looking for a strange, dream like fantasy novel? People who prefer books focused on characters over plots?

Originally posted on The Illustrated Page. ( )
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Nome dell'autoreRuoloTipo di autoreOpera?Stato
Peter S. Beagleautore primariotutte le edizionicalcolato
Palencar, John JudeImmagine di copertinaautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Williams, MatthewImmagine di copertinaautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato

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"There came three ladies at sundown:
one was brown as bread is brown,
one was black, with a sailor's sway,
and one was pale as the moon by day.

The white one wore an emerald ring,
the brown led a fox on a silver string,
and the black one carried a rosewood cane
with a sword inside, for I saw it plain.

They took my own room, they barred the door,
they sang songs I never had heard before.
My cheese and mutton they did destroy,
and they called for wine, and the stable boy.

And once they quarrelled and twice they cried--
Their laughter blazed through the countryside,
The ceiling shook and the plaster flew,
and the fox ate my pigeons, all but two.

They rode away with the morning sun,
the white like a queen, the black like a nun,
and the brown one singing with scarlet joy,
and I'll have to get a new stable boy."
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For Padma Hejmadi at last, and for always.

If we were simply friends,
colleagues sharing an art, a language,
a country sketched on restaurant tablecloths,
dayenu--it would have been enough--dayenu
But that we are truly married
is all I know of grace.
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Once there was a village on a river in a southern country.
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I was the first to see them--perhaps the very first in this country.
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