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portada Lud-In-The-Mist
Type
Physical Book
Year
2022
Language
English
Pages
368
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.3 x 12.7 x 2.1 cm
Weight
0.40 kg.
ISBN13
9781954319011

Lud-In-The-Mist

Hope Mirrlees (Author) · Curiouser House Publishing · Paperback

Lud-In-The-Mist - Hope Mirrlees

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Synopsis "Lud-In-The-Mist "

Fairy fruit is being smuggled into Dorimare.Lud-in-the-Mist, the highly influential early fantasy novel you've never heard of, but praised by numerous authors throughout the years. Originally published in 1926. In its main character, Master Nathaniel Chanticleer, Mirrlees prefigures Bilbo by a decade, in a setting not unlike Hobbiton. More recently the book's influence has been felt most strongly in works such as Neil Gaiman's Stardust and Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. It is the story of Lud-in-the-Mist in Dorimare, a small, sleepy and unimaginative town that borders the land of Fairy, but has cut itself off from completely for hundreds of years. Fairy fruit which sends men mad is now being smuggled in and given to children, old mysteries are dug up, and it is up to Master Nathaniel to get to the bottom of it all.Neil Gaiman describes Lud-in-the-Mist as "a little golden miracle of a book." Jo Walton says it "is beautifully written, charming, funny, and always just a little creepy", and Lin Carter paints it "as sturdy as a painting by Breughel, as delicate as the breath of a hummingbird's wing." Michael Swanwick says it's "diffuse influence runs like a scarlet thread through the body of serious fantasy today."This new edition also includes Hope Mirrlees's other influential, very modernist, piece of writing: Paris, a Poem, originally published in 1920 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf through their own Hogarth Press.
Hope Mirrlees
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Hope Mirrlees nació el 8 de abril de 1887 en Chislehurst, Kent, Inglaterra. Creció entre Escocia y Sudáfrica y luego regresó al Reino Unido para formarse. Estudió en el Newnham College de Cambridge donde se especializó en griego y desarrolló una estrecha relación con la también académica Jane Ellen Harrison, que fue su tutora. Más tarde Mirrlees vivió varios años en París, aprendió ruso, colaboró con traducciones y se vinculó con círculos modernos de Londres y París, incluyendo amistades con figuras como Virginia Woolf y T. S. Eliot.

En el ámbito literario, Mirrlees combinó poesía experimental, novela y traducción. Su poema extenso Paris: A Poem (1920) es aclamado como una obra modernista avanzada, que explora la ciudad de París con tipografía, ritmo y collage lingüístico. También publicó la novela de fantasía Lud‑in‑the‑Mist (1926), que se considera un precursor importante del género fantástico moderno. Mirrlees continuó escribiendo y traduciendo durante décadas, aunque tras una larga pausa su producción disminuyó. Murió el 1 de agosto de 1978 en Goring‑on‑Thames, Inglaterra. Su obra ha tenido un reconocimiento creciente en tiempos recientes, siendo recuperada por estudiosos y lectores de literatura moderna y de fantasía.
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