Tämä sivusto käyttää evästeitä palvelujen toimittamiseen, toiminnan parantamiseen, analytiikkaan ja (jos et ole kirjautunut sisään) mainostamiseen. Käyttämällä LibraryThingiä ilmaiset, että olet lukenut ja ymmärtänyt käyttöehdot ja yksityisyydensuojakäytännöt. Sivujen ja palveluiden käytön tulee olla näiden ehtojen ja käytäntöjen mukaista.
Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.… (lisätietoja)
ed.pendragon: The protagonist who starts from humble beginnings to become a powerful mage may be a cliche, but in both these series beginnings there is a carefully thought-out alterative world with sympathetic characters.
This is the first in the series. Right now, Ged (the main character), is not in the best of moods. Things keep going wrong and he never feels like he belongs. But he makes progress in this book and I am looking forward to book #2. I want to see him come fully into his power. : )
And here are some of her thoughts from the afterward, which was awesome!
"The conventionality of the story and its originality, reflect its existence within and partial subversion of an accepted, recognized tradition, one I grew up with.
"...The principal characters were men. If the story was heroic, the hero was a white man; most dark-skinned people were inferior or evil. If there was a woman in the story, she was a passive object of desire and rescue (a beautiful blond princess); active women (dark, witches) usually caused destruction or tragedy. Anyway, the stories weren't about women. they were about men, what men did, and what was important to men.
"It's in this sense that A Wizard was perfectly conventional...
"In other ways my story didn't follow the tradition. Its subversive elements attracted little attention, no doubt because I was deliberately sneaky..." (p. Afterward p. 261-264)
I loved reading in the afterward that Le Guin doesn't want her heroes to win war and battles, not the ones that involve slaying other people in wars between countries. The wars here are more internal. And her main characters are not white! It's subtle, but they are dark skinned.
Admito que casi le pongo 3 estrellas porque aunque me encanta el Worldbuilding que crea en muy poco tiempo, llega un punto en que la lectura se me atasca un poco. Aún así toda la metafora que es la aventura del protagonista es bastante “chef’s kiss”. Le Guin era una gran artista creando mundos pero sobretodo, plasmando ideas e inquietudes. ( )
My first re-read of this since it came out. A classic though one LeGuin herself returned to with a more critical eye in later years, especially for its limited male POV. At the time, it was considered groundbreaking for featuring dark-skinned primary characters. What struck me now was how little it reads like a young adult novel. Though it begins with a boy and a school for wizards, the boy is a traumatized young man of 19 or 20 well before the halfway point and there is little youth to him. The constant journeying means there's little chance to develop ancillary characters. LeGuin deals with this in part by having a childhood friend return for the final chapters. To be honest, while I enjoyed the novel, it felt thin. The social structures were just sketched and the limits of magic often seemed to just pop up when needed.
Recommended but it pales in comparison with her later writings. ( )
The majority of characters are thoughtful and sensitive, more interested in understanding their surroundings than in conquering them. The story was written for younger readers and in my eyes it lacks a bit of complexity, but it still has a mature and compelling heart to it. ( )
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky. —The Creation of Éa
Omistuskirjoitus
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
To my brothers Clifton, Ted, Karl
Ensimmäiset sanat
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.
Sitaatit
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
The wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.
Viimeiset sanat
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
But in the Deed of Ged nothing is told of that voyage nor of Ged's meeting with the shadow, before ever he sailed the Dragons' Run unscathed, or brought back the Ring of Erreth-Akbe from the Tombs of Atuan to Havnor, or came at last to Roke once more, as Archmage of all the islands of the world.
Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.
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Google Books — Ladataan...
A Wizard of Earthsea trilogy vs. quartet?
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And here are some of her thoughts from the afterward, which was awesome!
"The conventionality of the story and its originality, reflect its existence within and partial subversion of an accepted, recognized tradition, one I grew up with.
"...The principal characters were men. If the story was heroic, the hero was a white man; most dark-skinned people were inferior or evil. If there was a woman in the story, she was a passive object of desire and rescue (a beautiful blond princess); active women (dark, witches) usually caused destruction or tragedy. Anyway, the stories weren't about women. they were about men, what men did, and what was important to men.
"It's in this sense that A Wizard was perfectly conventional...
"In other ways my story didn't follow the tradition. Its subversive elements attracted little attention, no doubt because I was deliberately sneaky..." (p. Afterward p. 261-264)
I loved reading in the afterward that Le Guin doesn't want her heroes to win war and battles, not the ones that involve slaying other people in wars between countries. The wars here are more internal. And her main characters are not white! It's subtle, but they are dark skinned.
Nicely done Ursala!! Read the Afterward. ; ) (