Tag: J.R.R. Tolkien
The Victorian βGothic Revivalβ and the romantic nostalgia for the Middle AgesΒ
William Morris's literary work is an expression of the climax of his time: the gothic revival of the Victorian era aimed at evoking a fantasy Middle Ages, an invention to be contrasted with modernity. Thus Morris re-elaborates and retrieves symbols, themes and topoi of romances and poems of the medieval age: the cyclical journey, of initiation, of the hero protagonist, the trials to be overcome represented by the "merciless lady" and the perilous wood, the romantic nostalgia for forgotten times, for remote places that belonged to a mythical past. Everyone fears that Tolkien he will make his own and present them in a new light, renewing them, in "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings".
The dark soul of Michael Moorcock's Elric of MelnibonΓ©, the "anti-Tolkien"
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 MelnibonΓ© Β»by Michael Moorcock.
JRR Tolkien, the human story of a twentieth century hobbit
Sharp conservative hostile to any form of extremism, sincere Catholic deeply influenced by numerous other mythical-religious apparatuses, tenacious defender of trees against the society of machines: Tolkien was this, and much more. We retrace the life of one of the masters of contemporary fantasy on his anniversary.
βBeyond the Realβ, or of the literary dignity of the Fantastic
Fantastic literature is still barely regarded by too many as paraliterature; "Beyond the Real", the new volume published by GOG edizioni helps us to affirm the opposite, analyzing the work of five of the most important authors of the genre from the end of the XNUMXth century to today: Lovecraft, Machen, Meyrink, Tolkien and Ashton Smith.Β
βBeyond the Realβ: for a Metaphysics of the Fantastic
That of narration was born as a profoundly sacred practice: in narrating and narrating the world, man continually recreates and re-establishes it, since βhe no longer lives in a purely physical universe, but in a symbolic universe. Language, myth, art and religion are part of this universe, they are the threads that make up the symbolic fabric, the tangled web of human experience ". The narration thus soon becomes the key to the innumerable doors of the Mystery, to a relationship between different yet authentically real dimensions.
"Beyond the real"
The dimension of the fantastic has always existed. In ancient times, through the use of myths, sagas, legends and cosmogonies, human beings shaped their beliefs and motivated their actions. Today the fantastic continues to permeate life and the collective unconscious of man, expressing itself with certainly different means but always capable of magnetizing our inner compasses. Lovecraft, Machen, Meyrink, Smith and Tolkien are five paradigmatic authors of this genre, finally presented in all their literary and philosophical dignity in the new essay published by GOG edizioni.
JRR Tolkien and the fall of Arthur
Discovering the unfinished poem by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, published posthumously in 2013, and its link with the Arthurian cycle.
Jacques Bergier and "Magic Realism": a new paradigm for the atomic age
Recently translated into Italian by the types of Il Palindromo, "In praise of the Fantastic" by the French writer and journalist Jacques Bergier, best known for having written with Louis Pauwels "The morning of the wizards", provides an analysis of the work of some "magic writers" at the time unknown to the French-speaking public (including Tolkien, Machen and Stanislav Lem), aimed at defining a new paradigm for the XNUMXst century that can combine science and science fiction with the ontological category of the "sacred".
