Des nouvelles de Robert Holdstock

[jerome]

Robert Holdstock a évoqué pour un site anglais son roman : The Broken Kings qui appartient à la série du Codex de Merlin. Une série dont il évoque la naissance :

"Holdstock said the series was inspired in part by a performance he saw of Medea, the tragic play by the Greek writer Euripides. "In the legend, Medea—in a fury at Jason, her husband—kills his two sons by her," he said. "On the stage, the two bloody corpses of the boys were placed in a glass coffin. While the action stormed around them, they could be seen to be giggling and chatting below their bloodstained shrouds."


voilà ce qu'il dit sur The Broken Kings :

"Jason's legendary [sentient] ship Argo has come back in search of Merlin to confess (through her guardian spirit) a great, guilty secret," Holdstock said in an interview. "The secret must come out now because the Otherworld that borders the kingdom ruled over by [High King] Urtha is under the influence of a much older and very dangerous entity."

The passageways between the living and dead world are hostels—places of feasting and challenge—and these inns are rising everywhere, but they are corrupt, Holdstock said. "When the border is finally breached, Jason, Merlin and Urtha himself must sail to Shaper's Island in the Mediterranean Sea," he said.

Shaper's Island is a place of mazes, labyrinths and twists and turns of time, Holdstock said. "[There,] Argo's secret can be revealed and the invasion from the Otherworld reversed," he said. "Or can it? At the heart of the problem is the wedding gift that Jason gave Medea when they were lovers. And as the Greeks found out at Troy, no gift is given without consequences."

Tout se trouve ici : http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.ph ... 5&id=42952

tiens, j'en profite pour ressortir une vieille interview de mes cartons lorsqu'il était venu à la librairie Millepages de Vincennes :
http://www.actusf.com/spip/?article2996

[jlavadou]

Et l'article sur Les Royaumes brisés (The Broken Kings) sur Actusf est ici.