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Bezig met laden... Lancelot Du Lethe (2001)door J. Robert King
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Another one of my long-time agopurchases re-read for potential weeding, but this time around it’s going to be kept! This retelling of the Arthur-Guinevere-Lancelot story won’t dethrone Rosalind Miles’ version as my favourite, but I really enjoyed King’s supernatural explanation of events. Instead of Guinevere and Lancelot being cast as simply people who cheated on their respective husband and sovereign, King explains their attraction to each other through the lens of the Fey. He imagines that they were both faerie-offspring of the royal houses who were betrothed to each other at birth before becoming changelings in the mortal realm and taking their places as the Power of the Land and the heir to Benwick’s crown. Guinevere has often been seen as more than a mortal woman - a priestess of the old faith most often, but she is also often given supernatural powers that are tied to Avalon and Goddess worship more than a simple priestess deserves - so King’s reading of her is actually quite close to tradition, but his interpretation of Lancelot being a faerie changeling gives credence to the youth’s training on Avalon (hence Lancelot du Lac, of the Lake) after the death of his parents. Why else would the denizens of Avalon give aid to a mortal child, even if he is a royal orphan? This also raises his status, and therefore his complicity, in the betrayal against Arthur to be equal to Guinevere’s own, which with King’s stipulation that Guinevere’s marriage to Arthur is chaste makes their standing much more equal than other author’s interpretations. I’ll have to go back and read King’s other Arthurian novels now, since apparently I missed them! ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)King Arthur (Book 2) Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Heyne Allgemeine Reihe (13927)
The story of Lancelot is one of striving for perfection in the company of men only to fall short due to the sins of the flesh...but in Lancelot Du Lethe the most famous of the Knights of the Round Table is only partially of the mortal realm. He and Guinevere share a mystical bond of which Arthur can not be a part for they are both of the bloodline of the fey, and are immortally destined to be betrothed. This ensuing war of loyalties and love threatens not just the uneasy peace of the mortal realm, but of the entire netherworld of the multi-pantheons of gods as well. Drawing from Joseph Campbell, and from sources both historical and literary, this is a new take on the story of Camelot's most famous knight as told as only the author of Mad Merlin can. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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