Mythago Wood: 1 (Mythago Cycle)

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Y segundo por supuesto, los personajes, todos desarrollados y algunos muy complejos, donde sin duda me quedo con Guiwenneth por esa ternura y dulzura que desprendía, aunque fuera tan ruda. My editor at the time apparently flung the MS across the room in disgust, though now he claims it to be the best of the Mythago Cycle). Within the fantasy genre Mythago Wood has drawn critical attention for a variety of reasons over a span of years.

Una obra distinta con toques de mitología y realismo mágico, con ambientes inquietantes y gran profundidad onírica.The special 30th Anniversary edition of Mythago Wood was published as part of the Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks series in 2014, featuring an introduction by Neil Gaiman which you can read here. I am personally fond of Harry because our names are one letter away from being the same Keeton/Keeten.

But I'm not so swept away by this stuff any more, so I found Mythago wood interesting, but not enthralling. During this time, Steven is figuring out what's going on in the woods and he meets and falls in love with Guiwenneth (yes, the same girl that his father and brother loved). Her arms and legs were thin, but the muscles were wiry; a fine blonde down covered her calves and I noticed that her knees were badly scarred. Once penetrated, it grows larger, older and more unbearable as one approaches the heart of the wood.The Hollowing contains the complete recipe for Hare Stew a la Royale, straight out of Elizabeth David (and based on an eighteenth century recipe) delivered as part of an action scene. Indescribably enchanting… a fantasy which celebrates the immensity of love… should be read several times. Brian Aldiss has written that "Ryhope Wood [is] that terrifying metaphor for our mental labyrinths" in which " phylogeny presides over ontogeny" with regard to an individual's history and destiny. I enjoyed reading about these old legends that were completely new to me, and seeing how they transformed into something tangible within the wood. According to one modern Tolkien scholar, Mythago Wood and Lavondyss have an internally consistent framework of principles, and deal with the traditions of the British Isles with originality and deftness by incorporating its unwritten culture.

For example, there may be, over a period, many different forms of King Arthur, Robin Hood, Herne the Hunter and others, all looking and acting differently, yet all with the same basic functions and all acting by the rules set by their defining myths. These fairy tales were myths about imagined (or real) magical tree beings and transformed woodsmen or vegetation god or goddess warriors living in deep forests. Steven is no exception, quickly becoming convinced he loves her, and that this time, it is their destiny.

Hollowings function as wormholes by transporting mythagos and real human beings through space and time within the forest. But equally surprising was Christian Huxley’s reflections on the nature of Lavondyss, the mysterious realm that lies at the heart of Ryhope Wood. The book itself defines a mythago as a "myth imago, the image of the idealized form of a myth creature". The area around Ryhope Wood being sparsely populated, there are few mythagos in the woodland, but because of his interest in the wood and his deliberate experiments in the 1930s, George Huxley created more mythagos than would normally be present in the wood at any one time, causing a greater than usual diversity within the wood. Mežs aprakstīts tik labi, ka nav grūti noticēt tāda eksistencei, lai gan pašu mitago dabu gan varētu varbūt izsaidrot nedaudz labāk - tā arī līdz galam nesapratu, vai mitago rada kāda konkrēta cilvēka zemapziņa, vai tie pastāv paši par sevi, pāri laikam.