Tag: Fantasy

The dark soul of Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné, the "anti-Tolkien"

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Chaos deities, ancient alien meta-universes, avataric incarnations destined to perpetually reincarnate in the patrols of the eternal return, grimoires and black magic: if you are looking for the dark soul of fantasy and the fatalistic soul of the sword & sorcery, you have a good chance of finding it in the "Erlic di Melniboné »by Michael Moorcock.

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“Ombra”, the chivalrous arabesque of the poet who anticipated the fantasy-quest and… Jung

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The short story "Shadow" by the poet Sarah Dana Loring, originally contained in the "Arabesques" published in 1872 under the name of her husband Richard S. Greenough, is emblematic of the author's foresight in anticipating certain literary strands such as Sword & Sorcery and even some conceptions of the philosophy of the deep Jungian. Now available in Italian thanks to Dagon Press.

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Interview with Giuseppe Lippi: "The fantastic is the exception, not the rule"

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Following the recent death of Giuseppe Lippi, which took place on Saturday 15 December, we want to share this interview released a few years ago to Andrea Scarabelli for the Antarès magazine, focused on the work of HP Lovecraft and on the role and importance of the Imaginary of the Fantastic in today's world. Our heartfelt thanks go to Lippi for everything he has done.

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