Robin Larsen (1941–2022)

I got quite interested in Campbell in the late 80’s or early nineties, even bought several of his books, but I never got around to reading them. Recently I listened to his interviews with Bill Moyer and my interest in Campbell was reawakened. I bought several of his books as ebooks including this biography about him.
I find Campbell fascinating for a lot of reasons: he certainly was involved with many of the luminaries of the twentieth century and apparently held his own intellectually with them.
This book has encouraged me to reconsider trying to tackle Finnegan’s Wake with the help of his skeleton key. Also I need to turn more directly to his works. At this point the two that seem to draw me the most are The Hero with a Thousand Faces and The Inner Reaches of Outer Space. The later because it apparently sums up a lot of the conclusions he came to and because he equates Science Fiction with myth. I had come to a similar conclusion years ago that Science fiction was becoming modern mythology. My grasp of the relationship between Myth, society and self awareness was not developed the way Campbell developed his ideas.
It does seem many people from across the social and political spectrum gained a lot from reading what he had to say.
For me the question is will good intentions keep me on track to studying more of what he had to say.… (plus d'informations)