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Lädt ... Or what you will (Original 2020; 2020. Auflage)von Jo Walton
Werk-InformationenOr What You Will von Jo Walton (2020)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Advance copy provided by NetGalley. This has got to be the strangest, most original thing I’ve read so far this year, and I loved it. It’s kind of a mash-up of Twelfth Night and The Tempest, with some art history thrown in, all set in Florence, real and imagined, in different centuries. My unfamiliarity with most of that list did not detract from my enjoyment of the novel, but I did come out of it hoping to read and see The Tempest performed some day. I wouldn’t turn down a future trip to Italy either while we’re at it. The author’s love for Florence practically sings from the page. There was a lot going on here, many layers to the story. I was constantly being startled into switching gears to follow what was happening, but the writing was so good that it was less being startled than being pleasantly surprised as the author pulled me along the thought processes of the characters—one, a fantasy author, and one, her creation. The narration is done mostly by the latter, who is the essence of many of the author Sylvia’s characters. He is self-aware, and his wish to exist outside of the “bone cave” of Sylvia’s mind drives the narrative, which drifts back and forth between past and present, fantasy and reality. It was beautifully done, and I can’t wait to start making people read it when it comes out this summer. The narrator annoyed me mightily to begin with, with his peripatetic way of getting to the damn story already. I stuck with it because I almost always find Jo's books to be well worth any adjustment in expectations necessary (with the possible exception of Tooth and Claw, and it's not really her fault she was writing a pastiche of an author I bounce off anyway). Like Dorothy Heydt's The Interior Life I enjoyed the "fantasy" world more than the "real" world, but perhaps like that book the "real" world would grow on me too upon rereading. It's discomfittingly autobiographical: I don't know how much, but abusively toxic mothers abound in Jo's books like evil manipulative parent figures (in the absence of actual parents) in Dianna Wynne Jones'; Jo likewise fell in love with Florence and, well, is an acclaimed fantasy author. Anyway. The Shakespearean spin on the fantasy-Florence setting is delightful, and once the two worlds begin to interact more clearly / the "real" world plot starts becoming evident I began to accustom myself to the narrator. Mashups are a thing I like greatly after all. The repeated evocations of the story of Isaac made me expect (Chekhov's gun -style) some kind of sacrifice to be more key to the story's denouement but I guess it was more of a thematic issue referring to various aspects of the story's history(/ies)? It feels like a loose thread but maybe again a reread would clear it up. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Fantasy.
Fiction.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: Or What You Will is an utterly original novel about how stories are brought forth from Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author Jo Walton. He has been too many things to count. He has been a dragon with a boy on his back. He has been a scholar, a warrior, a lover, and a thief. He has been dream and dreamer. He has been a god. But "he" is in fact nothing more than a spark of idea, a character in the mind of Sylvia Harrison, 73, award-winning author of thirty novels over forty years. He has played a part in most of those novels, and in the recesses of her mind, Sylvia has conversed with him for years. But Sylvia won't live forever, any more than any human does. And he's trapped inside her cave of bone, her hollow of skull. When she dies, so will he. Now Sylvia is starting a new novel, a fantasy for adult readers, set in Thalia, the Florence-resembling imaginary city that was the setting for a successful YA trilogy she published decades before. Of course he's got a part in it. But he also has a notion. He thinks he knows how he and Sylvia can step off the wheel of mortality altogether. All he has to do is convince her. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. .Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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