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Chargement... La quête de Tanelorn - tome 7 (7) (original 1975; édition 2008)par Michael Moorcock (Auteur), Gérard Lebec (Traducteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreLa légende de Hawkmoon, Tome 7 : La quête de Tanelorn par Michael Moorcock (1975)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I just reread “The Quest for Tanelorn” by Michael Moorcock for the first time in nearly 40 years and found it pretty dull, actually. I’d read it once as a teenager, but at that time just didn’t get into the “Chronicles of Castle Brass” trilogy, despite reading and rereading the first Hawkmoon series multiple times. In each of the two previous books of the Castle Brass trilogy the main character, Hawkmoon, experiences changes in time and space that begin to restore his friends and family that he lost in battle at the end of the first Hawkmoon series. This one continues that process as now his children are missing. The first third of the book sets things up for him to head out on an adventure. There’s little action there, just talk, planning and preparation, with a little uneventful travel. The characters’ goals are to get to Tanelorn, a city in Moorcock’s mythology where warriors can find peace. But the city changes in different dimensions and different times and sort of moves around, making it a difficult destination. The second third of the book, where all the action is, is a repeat. For anyone who’s read other Moorcock stories about the Champion Eternal, this adventure will be familiar as he uses it multiple times. The tale is the same, just that he writes it from a different character’s perspective depending which series of books you’re reading. That’s not a bad idea, but when that’s the main action in the book there’s no tension, because we already know how it ends. And honestly, the villains in this adventure aren’t all that interesting. The final third of the book has little action, just talking and philosophizing. Hawkmoon also gets to witness the endings of the two other Champion Eternal characters, Elric and Corum, copied from the final pages of those respective series. Overall, it’s not a great book. It’s not terrible. It’s just sort of “meh”. It’s not a bad conclusion for Hawkmoon, just not an exciting way for a reader to arrive there. I have read the stories of Hawkmoon, Elric and Corum and after reading this, am tempted to go find out Erekose's story. A good ending to this universe of Moorcock's. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieThe Eternal Champion (Hawkmoon novel 7) Hawkmoon (7) Appartient à la série éditorialeBastei Lübbe Taschenbuch (13074)
Dorian Hawkmoon's dangerous quests through the multiverse have been successful and he has finally been reunited with his true love Yisselda, although his two children are still missing. Hawkmoon would move Heaven and Earth to find them - no idle boast when dealing with the multiverse - and soon finds himself on another quest. If he is to finally reunite his family, Hawkmoon must first find his way to the fabled city of Tanelorn ... Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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They set off, but when they reach the Silver Bridge which joins their version of Calais to the coast of Granbretan, as it is known in this dimension, Dorian is snatched into another existence where he is confronted by a strange and threatening being. He falls into the sea, but is rescued by Jhary-a-Conel, one of the incarnations of the Companion to the Eternal Champion (as he is an incarnation of the Champion himself). Jhary rows him to the shore of a misty, seemingly deserted, land. They are accosted by the menacing being who abducted Dorian, whose ramblings don't make much sense. Afterwards, they find a group of people they recognise, who have been brought from different realities to advise them, and on their directive, return to the shore where a mysterious ship arrives.
On the ship are warriors taken from different realities, and two other incarnations of the Eternal Champion, Erekose and Corum. Soon afterwards, a third is taken onboard: Elric of Melnibone. The mysterious blind Captain tells them their mission: the Conjunction of the Million Spheres is about to take place when the whole multiverse is subject to change, and this has allowed the intrusion of two powerful sorcerors from a different reality who intend to suck all the energy out of the multiverse and kill everything. They must somehow kill them and burn the building in which they reside, in the ruins of Tanelorn the fabled city which both Dorian and Erekose have been seeking: Dorian, because he hopes his lost children are there, and Erekose because his wife whom he has been trying to find for aeons, might be there.
I won't say any more about the plot at this point only than to say that, in effect, the book has two climaxes, as the final third concerns events of even greater momentum for not only the hundreds of incarnations of the Champion, but also the multiverse itself, and provides an explanation for, among other things, the precise nature of the Black Sword which Elric and other heroes have carried, and the Black Jewel which Hawkmoon once had forcibly inserted into his head to control him (in the previous Runestaff books).
In one sense, this book provides a wrapping up of the whole saga of connected stories about Hawkmoon, Erekose, Elric and Corum, though I believe some aspects of it are revisited in other books written later, such as The Sailor on the Seas of Fate in the Elric series which I have yet to re-read.
The aspect which figured more strongly in the previous books in this trilogy, but is lost here, is characterisation. There are a lot of minor characters - the other soldiers aboard the ship who help the four Champions, for a start - and characters who have appeared in other series which I read too long ago to recall, such as Orland Fank, servant of the Runestaff - and none of them are more than ciphers. The important thing in this book is the concept of the multiverse, the nature of gods, whether there should be an imposed balance between order and chaos, and the nature of humanity and whether we create our own gods and can dispense with them as easily, and can create our own paradise. So there is quite a strong philosophical component driving the narrative, rather than straightforward action as in the previous volumes. It was interesting, but also rather mind-boggling at times. ( )