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Chargement... The Dying Earth (original 1950; édition 1972)par Jack Vance
Information sur l'oeuvreUn monde magique par Jack Vance (1950)
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terribly dated, but still strangely addicting (today it feels quite ridiculous as prose and ideas, but I still can't stop reading and the world is very original and surprisingly nasty) ( ) Ahí están, aguardando en un mundo moribundo de conjuros místicos, poderosas maldiciones y demoníacas criaturas de la noche. Son Turjan, el científico que lucha por crear vida; T'sais, la hechicera de Embelyon, que viaja hacia la lejana Tierra en busca de la belleza y el amor en medio de los sombríos bosques y los brumosos precipicios de un mundo mágico; Guyal de la Esfera, nacido con un anhelo de conocimiento que lo impulsa hacia el Museo del Hombre y la sabiduría del Universo. Todos ellos, y muchos otros, lucharán, vivirán y morirán su aventura en un mundo crepuscular que lanza ya sus últimos estertores... favorite quote: “What gorgeous souls have vanished into the buried ages; what marvellous creatures are lost past the remotest memory … Nevermore will there be the like; now in the last fleeting moments, humanity festers rich as rotten fruit. Rather than master and overpower our world, our highest aim is to cheat it through sorcery.” aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The stories included in The Dying Earth introduce dozens of seekers of wisdom and beauty, lovely lost women, wizards of every shade of eccentricity with their runic amulets and spells. We meet the melancholy deodands, who feed on human flesh and the twk-men, who ride dragonflies and trade information for salt. There are monsters and demons. Each being is morally ambiguous: The evil are charming, the good are dangerous. All are at home in Vance's lyrically described fantastic landscapes like Embelyon where, "The sky was] a mesh of vast ripples and cross-ripples and these refracted a thousand shafts of colored light, rays which in mid-air wove wondrous laces, rainbow nets, in all the jewel hues...." The dying Earth itself is otherworldly: "A dark blue sky, an ancient sun.... Nothing of Earth was raw or harsh--the ground, the trees, the rock ledge protruding from the meadow; all these had been worked upon, smoothed, aged, mellowed. The light from the sun, though dim, was rich and invested every object of the land...with a sense of lore and ancient recollection." Welcome. "The Dying Earth and its sequels comprise one of the most powerful fantasy/science-fiction concepts in the history of the genre. They are packed with adventure but also with ideas, and the vision of uncounted human civilizations stacked one atop another like layers in a phyllo pastry thrills even as it induces a sense of awe at]...the fragility and transience of all things, the nobility of humanity's struggle against the certainty of an entropic resolution." --Dean Koontz, author of the Odd Thomas novels "He gives you glimpses of entire worlds with just perfectly turned language. If he'd been born south of the border, he'd be up for a Nobel Prize." --Dan Simmons author of The Hyperion Cantos Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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