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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Coming of the King (1988)di Nikolai Tolstoy
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Merlin's spirit is raised and tells long tale of battles and Irish myth Not Malory's Arthurian legendary, but rather the Welsh underpinnings of the same. An acquired taste, but one that rewards the patient reader who can appreciate it on its own terms. Alas for the trilogy that might have been, but Tolstoy's devastating loss in a British libel suit ended what promised to be a unique take on the Arthurian mythos. The medieval French interpreters of the Matter of Britain drew heavily upon the Celtic myths and folktales of Brittany and Great Britain when they wrote their own chivalric stories. The heroes of those earlier tales were seen by the French as uncouth and unchristian and they generally cast the native heroes as boorish and unmannered when compared with the "new" cultured French heroes. Tolstoy has taken back the original traditions and shows these characters, warts and all, as people set within their own culture. Based on Welsh and Germanic mythology, the manners and mores might not be what we have come to expect from Arthurian heroes, but the combination of earthy humour and high mysticism strikes a chord of realism, despite the fantasy setting. The kings and warriors aren't paragons of chivalric virtue, but then they pre-date the chivalric ideal and demand to be treated on their own terms. It's such a shame that Tolstoy's legal difficulties at the time of the publication of this first volume in an intended trilogy prevented him from continuing the series. Fiction, Fantasy, Celtic legend, Merlin and King Maelgun, First published by Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1988, First Italian edition titled: "Merlino e il regno incantato", Rusconi, 1992, 756 pp., translated by Maria Grazia Griffini, Narrativa pesante e poco scorrevole, molto difficile arrivare alla fine nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Merlin the sorcerer tells King Ceneu of Prydein the story of his life and the history of the ancient land of Prydein. Recommended. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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