JOSE VS. THE MAN: Back in 1980, 18 years before he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Jose Saramago was a newspaper deputy editor who got canned from his job (nobody treats deputy editors right, do they?). He penned a big, fat novel that lets us know exactly how he was feeling, "Raised from the … Continue reading Etc.: early Saramago, plus Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ meets poet Ted Hughes
Category: Myth – fiction
Novels and other works of fiction that draw on myth and superstition to tell a story.
Etc.: Tolkien’s names, Pullman’s grimly good
WHAT'S IN A NAME: Just some trivia for the end of the weekend about J.R.R. Tolkien's interest in the late, great storyteller Snorri Sturluson. Nancy Marie Brown's new book on the Viking chronicler (featured in a previous post at Call of the Siren) who gave us stories of Odin, Thor & Company also recalled her … Continue reading Etc.: Tolkien’s names, Pullman’s grimly good
The 13th century’s Stieg Larsson: new in bookstores
My geography is a bit off -- Stieg Larsson, the late author of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," was from Sweden; the early epic chronicler Snorri Sturluson, who wrote in the 13th century, hailed from Iceland. Still, I think the comparison works. Both authors have created enormous public curiosity about the way people live … Continue reading The 13th century’s Stieg Larsson: new in bookstores
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