Gritty Fantasy. La Prima Legge a confronto con il legendarium tolkieniano
Abstract
Nella Prima Legge, Abercrombie si colloca come erede della tradizione tolkieniana. Applica procedimenti simili a quelli di Tolkien: la ripresa di temi e personaggi canonici rielaborati da un punto di vista che pone in dialogo il classico e il moderno. La prospettiva di Abercrombie è ruvida e cupa, grimdark, spesso demistificante, a tratti caustica, ma senza abbandonare il tracciato del fantasy epico tolkieniano. Malgrado questo stretto rapporto, La Prima Legge non perde in originalità, né efficacia.
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In The First Law, Abercrombie positions himself as an heir to Tolkien. He applies processes that are like Tolkien’s, by proposing tropes and canonic characters that are reworked from a point of view that puts the classic and the modern in dialogue. Abercrombie’s perspective is gritty and gloomy, grimdark, often demystifying, in places caustic, but it doesn’t leave the tracks of Tolkien's epic fantasy behind. Despite this close relationship, The First Law is not diminished in originality nor efficacy.
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