Tag: Sword & Sorcery

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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The Geist, the Mana and the "magic naturalis" in Clark Ashton Smith's sword & sorcery

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Zothique is a non-place, albeit very concrete and real: Clark Ashton Smith imagines a world in which our current technology does not exist, and men live immersed in concrete elemental forces and invisible powers, but which act on what is earthly.

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