Un article/itw de Tanith Lee
Posté : lun. sept. 13, 2010 7:43 am
Voici un article sur Tanith Lee avec des bouts d'interviews dedans :
Lee is, I have to admit, a beautiful writer. I've complained before about over-the-top attempts to ape a "heroic" language by the likes of Poul Anderson and Michael Moorcock. Lee gets it spot-on, with moments of wry humour amid her smooth, elegant prose; she gives the impression of days-of-yore and a faraway world, and tackles her creation's weird eroticisms, without ever being tempted into going over the top. (Another author, incidentally, who I think is good on this is Guy Gavriel Kay: "The sun rises in your eyes" is the marriage proposal in Fionovar, and I sort of love it ...) But, attempting to summarise the story here, I realise what, for me, went wrong in Death's Master. The story is just too splintered, too multi-stranded – I haven't even begun to address what happens to Zhirem, which feels somewhat tacked on to the end – and ultimately it failed to hold my interest. The characters Lee has created are unique and brilliant – a far cry from usual fantasy tropes and all the better for it. Along with Narasen and Simmu, there's Yolsippa, immortal and tricksy, only turned on by cross-eyed women. There's the evil but amusing Lylas, a witch frozen at the age of 15 and all the sillier for it. But I'm afraid their disparate adventures just didn't quite do it for me.