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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Hound of Ulster (1963)di Rosemary Sutcliff
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I believe I had probably read this book before, when I was very young. However, it's possible that I'd read a different re-telling of these stories. "The Hound of Ulster" is Cuchulain, the legendary Irish hero, who, when his battle rage was upon him, was undefeatable. It collects the different tales of Cuchulain, and strings them together into a narrative, much like Howard Pyle's tales of King Arthur. The language is quite traditional, without using the technique of fleshing out the stories with many completely original details, as is more the mode today. What's here is pretty much just what's in the original tales, but told in an easy-to-follow, enjoyable way. However, in Sutcliff's introduction, she mentions how one can tell a lot about a people and culture from the tales that they tell... and, reading these, I couldn't help but be reminded (again) of Ursula K. LeGuin's "Gifts," and how she showed in that book how small and petty conflicts and rivalries could be magnified to an importance all out of proportion in an isolated, primitive culture. Here, a good deal of Cuchulain's "heroic" exploits have to do with no more than stealing a neighbor's cattle! It's interesting to read these stories in contrast to so much of the extremely 'elevated' fantasy inspired by Celtic myth. The book also shows, however, some of the interesting aspects of the culture - how a Queen could sometimes be more powerful than her husband, how bearing a child out of wedlock did not have shame attached, and acceptance of infidelity in marriage - things that are there in the original stories, but surprising, I thought, for a book published in 1963 and marketed to an audience including young people. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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This saga of the Irish Celts is re-told by Rosemary Sutcliff with a magical weaving together of passion and poetry. The boy who takes up the spear and shield of Manhood on this day will become the most renowned of all the warriors of Ireland, men will follow at his call to the world's end, and his enemies will shudder at the thunder of his chariot wheels. So the prophecy went, and as the boy Cuchulain heard it, he went forward to claim the weapons of his manhood. This is the story of how he became the greatest of heroes--the Hound of Ulster. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Although quite familiar with the character of Cú Chulainn, who is the hero of the ancient Irish epic, The Táin Bó Cúailnge ("The Cattle Raid of Cooley"), which has been described as the Irish Iliad, and which chronicles the events of the ancient war between Connacht and Ulster, I had never read anything that took all of the stories about him and tied them together into one narrative of his life. I was therefore pleased when Sutcliff's The Hound of Ulster was assigned as a text in the course I took on the history of children's literature, while getting my masters, particularly as I had already read and greatly enjoyed her historical novel, The Eagle of the Ninth. I found this telling immensely engaging, and was interested to see Sutcliff's take on this famous tale. I do wish that she had discussed her specific sources, in her too-brief foreword, but leaving aside that criticism, this is one I would highly recommend, to any middle-grade reader (or older reader of middle-grade books) who enjoys fantasy and/or mythology. ( )