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Ragnarok

The End of the Gods

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Ragnarok

Di: A.S. Byatt
Letto da: Harriet Walter
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As the bombs rain down in the Second World War, one young girl is evacuated to the English countryside. She is struggling to make sense of her new wartime life. Then she is given a copy of Asgard and the Gods - a book of ancient Norse myths - and her inner and outer worlds are transformed. War, natural disaster, reckless gods and the recognition of impermanence in the world are just some of the threads that A.S. Byatt weaves into this most timely of books. Just as Wagner borrowed from this dramatic Norse saga for the climax of the Ring Cycle, so Byatt reinvents it for our time in all its intensity and glory. Linguistically stunning and imaginatively abundant, this is a landmark piece of storytelling from one of the world's truly great writers.©2011 A.S. Byatt Fantasy Favole Narrativa di genere Narrativa letteraria
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"Byatt's prose is majestic, the lush descriptive passages - jeweled one minute, gory the next - a pleasure to get lost in"
"Byatt paints beautiful and fantastic word-pictures, glittering verbal special effects" (Allan Massie)
"Colour and sensation flood Byatt's writing . . . One of the most brilliant minds and speakers of our generation."
"Byatt's prose, compact and lyrical, treats [the gods] with dignity...Ragnarok is a clever, lucid, lovely book" (M. John Harrison)
"Thanks to a rare fusion of imagination and intellect, sensual poetry and cerebral prose, youthful joy and elderly wisdom [,Byatt has made]...an entire world, compressed but energetically alive in all its details. When we have artists like this, who needs gods?" (Peter Conrad)
"Byatt peels back the cover of the book that the girl reads and takes us deep inside it as she delights in reimagining the twilight of the gods and the destruction of the world. ... Like Wagner before her, [she] dares to dream how the world might end ... this rewriting of the Ragnarok is a story for our time of overpopulation and anthropomorphic climate change, and of all time"
"Surely among the most beautiful and incisive [pages] Byatt has ever written"
"Byatt's retelling of Ragnarok is permeated with the loving familiarity of long acquaintance. Her language is lapidary. The terrible archness that can infest the narratives of sophisticated writers who attempt to master myth is resoundingly absent. ... It is pleasant to imagine some lonely, bookish child discovering it and becoming entranced" (Jane Shilling)
"A brilliant, highly intelligent, fiercely personal rendition of the Scandinavian mythology...a gorgeous enrichment and interpretation" (Ursula K. Le Guin)
"Byatt's writing, impassioned and liberated from the strictures of the novel, has never been so beautiful"
"Byatt's prose is majestic, the lush descriptive passages - jeweled one minute, gory the next - a pleasure to get lost in."
"In her addition to Canongate's series of "Myths", Byatt dramatically retells Nordic legends of the twilight of the gods."
"Energy and power drip from Byatt's writing. ... There are too many glittering sentences to quote here in full."
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