Björn recenserade Tales from Earthsea av Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea Cycle, #5)
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Any series that runs over several decades, especially one written by an author as invested as LeGuin is bound to have inconcistencies, and Earthsea - for all its brilliance - certainly does. So Tales is essentially her trying to weld together the earlier Dragons & Sorcerers tales with how the later ones try to get under the skin of what makes this fail or work as a society, and for the most part succeeds brilliantly.
The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
There's a coherence to these five tales, both patching and unravelling the problems of both the world and the worldbuilding. And there's ULG's beautiful writing that keeps finding new nooks and crannies to get into. Occasionally preachy, sure, but sometimes you have to spell it out. Pun intended.
"What is …
Any series that runs over several decades, especially one written by an author as invested as LeGuin is bound to have inconcistencies, and Earthsea - for all its brilliance - certainly does. So Tales is essentially her trying to weld together the earlier Dragons & Sorcerers tales with how the later ones try to get under the skin of what makes this fail or work as a society, and for the most part succeeds brilliantly.
The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
There's a coherence to these five tales, both patching and unravelling the problems of both the world and the worldbuilding. And there's ULG's beautiful writing that keeps finding new nooks and crannies to get into. Occasionally preachy, sure, but sometimes you have to spell it out. Pun intended.
"What is she, that you ask this for her?” “Who are we,” said the Doorkeeper, “that we refuse her without knowing what she is?”
Rip it up and stitch it back together again. It's the only way storytelling works. And not just that.