Post by account_disabled on Dec 21, 2023 4:07:00 GMT
There was a time when I loved epic stories in which castles to be conquered and journeys to search for or deliver talismans alternated with mythological peoples such as elves, dwarves and trolls. There was a time when magic and dragons were for me essential ingredients for a successful fantasy novel . I read Tolkien 's The Lord of the Rings and, before that, the novel that took its inspiration from it – or more than an inspiration, as some claim – The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks . Classic fantasy, which rests on the usual structure: wizard/sorcerer who warns of danger; hero in the figure of anyone; travel and research; various dangers; arrival and fighting scattered here and there; victory of Good over Evil.
Terry Brooks continued on this path, enjoyable reads, but which do not offer anything new in fantasy. Years ago I also read David Eddings , a prolific writer with numerous sagas. Those novels I read were a bit static, but particular, because they also contained something scientific. Philip Pullman , CS Lewis and JK Rowling seem almost similar to me as a type of fantasy: a modern world in which magic and fantastic creatures exist. Of course, their works have their own individuality, but they are still a different fantasy than usual. Then there is Special Data German fantasy. Michael Ende and Walter Moers gave us new worlds and a whole new fantasy. Very divergent writers, in terms of topics covered and style.
Ende's novels contain a sad, melancholic streak, while in Moers' stories there is pure madness, the imagination launched without brakes and without inhibitions. George RR Martin has in a certain sense rewritten classic fantasy, shaping it directly from medieval history, creating a harsh, brutal world, very close, I believe, to the reality of the Middle Ages. In A Song of Ice and Fire - a very long saga that seems to have no end - there is an enormous quality that other fantasy novels do not possess: the magic and the fantastic creatures sipped with a dropper. Not only is there a total renewal of the mythological figures - the Strangers, for example - but the fantastic element is so rare and expertly inserted that the reader cannot help but believe in it. From our country come B series novels, which exploit the wave of classic fantasy, drawing on Anglo-Saxon myths and folklore, which are not only distant from our culture, but do not give the public anything new.
Terry Brooks continued on this path, enjoyable reads, but which do not offer anything new in fantasy. Years ago I also read David Eddings , a prolific writer with numerous sagas. Those novels I read were a bit static, but particular, because they also contained something scientific. Philip Pullman , CS Lewis and JK Rowling seem almost similar to me as a type of fantasy: a modern world in which magic and fantastic creatures exist. Of course, their works have their own individuality, but they are still a different fantasy than usual. Then there is Special Data German fantasy. Michael Ende and Walter Moers gave us new worlds and a whole new fantasy. Very divergent writers, in terms of topics covered and style.
Ende's novels contain a sad, melancholic streak, while in Moers' stories there is pure madness, the imagination launched without brakes and without inhibitions. George RR Martin has in a certain sense rewritten classic fantasy, shaping it directly from medieval history, creating a harsh, brutal world, very close, I believe, to the reality of the Middle Ages. In A Song of Ice and Fire - a very long saga that seems to have no end - there is an enormous quality that other fantasy novels do not possess: the magic and the fantastic creatures sipped with a dropper. Not only is there a total renewal of the mythological figures - the Strangers, for example - but the fantastic element is so rare and expertly inserted that the reader cannot help but believe in it. From our country come B series novels, which exploit the wave of classic fantasy, drawing on Anglo-Saxon myths and folklore, which are not only distant from our culture, but do not give the public anything new.