La Sword & Sorcery est-elle prête à faire son retour ? C'est la question que ce pose cet article en anglais.

Voici le début :

"With new movie versions of Robert E. Howard’s black-maned hero Conan and Edgar Rice Burrough’s gentleman adventurer John Carter of Mars, it would appear that the sword & sorcery genre may be about to resurge into the public sphere.

A staple of the pulp era, sword & sorcery fiction can best be recognized by the presence of roguish, larger-than-life heroes battling supernatural and earthly foes by magic, might and mein. Usually these heroes aren’t exactly “good” guys, but many times the results of their adventures tip the scale in favor of goodness. An example: a sword & sorcery character might indeed wage battle against a powerful demon cult, but rather than doing so to benefit society, he or she will more likely be motivated by the possibility of treasure or the gain of personal power. True, society may benefit from the adventurer’s quest, but such is rarely his or her primary - or even secondary - concern. Characters like the aforementioned Conan and John Carter are exemplary examples of the type."