Acquire The Book Of Wonder Created By Lord Dunsany Rendered As Publication

been recommended to read Dunsany as an example of early fantasy, and so I was quite interested to get into this book, My problem is that I don't think I posses the critical faculty to judge it by context, instead reading with a twentyfirst century eye.

As a result I had issues, possibly issues that are a little unfair, There were some fantastic ideas in the book, On an imaginative level, I loved the centaurs, the Dragon in "Miss Cubbidge amp The Dragon Of Romance" which read as an early urban fantasy I could get lost in the ideas of this book.

But as short stories, I felt they went nowhere, They painted a wonderful picture but told nothing, I felt I learned very little, either about the characters or the world from these stories, All dazzling lights and no content,
And many of the ideas felt regurgitated, Stories where ideas were repeated but taken in different directions, ultimately to also go nowhere,
As I say, I might be being unfair, judging with the wrong set of eyes, but for me these stories did not work.
Este libro contiene catorce relatos de fantasía, todos ubicados en un mismo mundo, Seguimos a criaturas diferentes, desde centauros, dragones, humanos, entre otros, Las historias son completamente diferentes y poseen la personalidad de cada uno de sus protagonistas,
Sin embargo, hay algo que no me terminó de cerrar de este libro y de estos cuentos, Hay algo muy fuerte en ellos y es la forma de retratar o de hablar de las mujeres, No me molesta el hecho de que la mayoría de los protagonistas son hombres, sino la forma en que éstos tratan a las mujeres: tomándolas del pelo, secuestrándolas, etc.
Se entiende bastante debido a la época en la que fue escrito y el contexto al que pertenece, Sin embargo, me es imposible ver el libro bajo mis propios ojos,
Además, algunos de los cuentos me parecieron un poco, . . vacíos.

Están llenos de acción y de aventura pero, al final, no me cuentan nada, No me agregan mucho en lo relacionado al mundo, ni me dejan reflexionando, mucho menos me dejan sorprendida al final o con emoción alguna.
Solo igual que cuando comencé a leerlos, Y esto, para mí, es lo peor que me puede suceder al momento de leer, Peor, incluso, que el trato de la mujer, Porque eso puede adjudicarse al worldbuildin y la sociedad cuestionable pero que un libro no me cause nada, . . eso no se quita de ninguna manera,
Las ilustraciones son preciosas y la edición está muy cuidada, Son para leer una tarde tomando mate, o cualquier otra cosa, para escapar del mundo y nada más, This is one of the books Janny brought to NYC when she moved in with me to study at Barnard College, Being intent on reading what she had read, having liked Tolkien as a child and having heard often of Lord Dunsany, I picked this up.
Unfortunately, I was disappointed, Dunsany's style of fantasyin this collection at leastnot touching me at all, A succinct book review, so you have more time left for reading books!

You will be drowned in an ocean of prose, and you will like it, because it will feel like breathing in for the first time the scent of the sweet honey blossoms of the tree of eternal youth and pleasantness in the realm of the great god Fadeeddldeeda which is inhibited only by the most beautiful and shortlived butterflies and one vicious guard dog that has torn to shreds exactly nine and onehalf humans and one unfortunate katydid.
Brief synopsis: Liked it, but didn't love it,

Dunsany is generally considered an early fantasywriter, by which it's generally meant that he wrote before the swordsandsorcery pulp of thes e.
g. Robet Howard and J. R. R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" would establsih the basic forms that most modern fantasy genre fiction would imitate,

The fourteen short stories and they are indeed quite short some just a few pages in his Book of Wonderare fun to read and they do have a much different feel, mood and structure than modern 'fantasy' fiction.
In some ways, they seem a bit more like fairy tales for adults, perhaps he shortstory equivalent Christina Rosetti's Victorian poem "Goblin Market", Compared to more modern fantasy, there's little concern with systematic "worldbuilding" here, or in explaining the hows and whys of the setting any more than is needed to tell the story.
Related tot this is another distinctive feature of the stories: many of them to present characters moving from our ordinary, realworld setting to some magical, fantastic invented place without attempting to explain it.
It just happens.

Quite often, the stories were laugh out loud funny, In some cases, the humor is just a function of nomenclature, as in one tale whose three protagonists are named Slith, Slippy, and Slorg.
In other times it stems from a kind of absurd, situational irony There is, at the same time a rather pessimistic element to the stories.
One storyends on the line, "the tale is one of those that have not a happy ending" but that could in fact describe many of the stories here.
Many are about characters who have quests that end in the protagonists' deaths, or in some other, perhaps unexpected disappointment,

My personal favorite in the collection was "Chubu and Sheemish" about two gods who have a grudge with each other, although I also quite liked "The Loot of Bombasharna" and "The Hoard of Gibellines".


Though I found these stories enjoyable, I have to say, at the same time, that "The Book of Wonder" didn't amaze me.
While I found the stories enjoyable, they also seemed kind of gossamery and insubstantial without a lot of depth or sutbtlety to the characters, settings, plot, meaning, or wordcraft.
While reading these, I never thought, "Wow, there's a lot going on here, . . I need to think about it more, " It was much more like the experience of just watching a movie or having a dream and letting it wash over you,
I listened to a variety audio recordings of this book, I found it heavy on prose beautiful prose, mind you, but the prose made it difficult to follow the plots, I think listening to it instead of reading it was a mistake on my part, This book contains various short anthologies, complete with their whimsical writing and fairytale warnings, The first couple took me a second to get used to his writing, often having long and often overly explanatory sentences, Once I was over the initial differences in his prose I found myself quite enjoying his works here,
They all had such interesting and complete feeling worlds, just showing as a mini snapshot of a world that has been turning both before and after we leave.


A very easy read, if a bit short, though I hear he has many other works I'd love to have a go at reading too.
Da grande lettore di H, P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith e J, R. R. Tolkien, come non potevo leggere qualcosa di Lord Dunsany, diciamo il punto di inizio, del fantasy classico
Così la mia ricerca mi ha portato a questo libro: "Il libro delle meraviglie", preso in biblioteca, perchè è fuori catalogo da anni ormai e nell'usato si fatica a trovarlo, anzi penso sia introvabile.

Quindi un ringraziamento alle biblioteche, grandi spazi della nostra cultura, . .
Inizio a leggerlo, ma c'è qualcosa che mi distrae, allora lo chiudo e lo lascio lì in bella vista per un futuro più roseo.
Intanto leggo altro, ma questo libro è sempre lì che cerca di farsi notare, come a dirmi: "Dai, perchè mi hai lasciato qui, così", Cerco di non farci caso, perchè leggere un libro, soprattutto un libro di questo genere, in un momento non adatto, rovinerebbe tutto, Così passano i giorni e si avvicina la data per riportarlo in biblioteca, Lo riprendo, lo sfoglio, provo a leggere qualche pagina e sembra essersi acceso uno spiraglio in lontananza, che mi da speranza, Continuo, e lo spiraglio diventa sempre più visibile, tanto che, . .
Insomma questo libro mi ha aperto mondi straordinari, si differenzia da Lovecraft forse il suo massimo estimatore, dal fatto che quello che Lovecraft ne fa fulcro dei suoi racconti, il terrore, in Dunsany è, bellezza.

Sembra pazzesco che due autori così diversi, per concetto, si siano trovati ed abbiano collaborato ampiamente,
I racconti qui raccolti, sono librati in aria, come stare in un mondo dove l'attrazione gravitazionale non c'è, sono così eterei, di primo achito forse anche evanescenti, ma racchiudono tutto ciò che è il sogno.
Ci porta sul palmo della sua mano, o sul tappeto volante e lui, Dunsany, ci racconta di queste avventure fantastiche, visionarie, oniriche, con una delicatezza rara.

Per chi ama il fantastico, penso che questa sia un'opera imprescindibile, consigliato!,