{"id":88,"date":"2005-12-14T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-05-16T08:23:03","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T06:23:03","slug":"ursula-k-le-guin-a-wizard-of-earthsea-the-tombs-of-atuan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Ursula K. Le Guin &#8211; A Wizard of Earthsea \/ The Tombs of Atuan (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/240\/726\/1600\/le%20guin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/240\/726\/320\/le%20guin.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> I loved Le Guins The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness, so even though I&#8217;m not very keen on people in pointy hats throwing speels (unless they&#8217;re called Gandalf, obviously) I thought I&#8217;d give Earthsea a shot, and I&#8217;m glad I did. Like with her other books, I found the most interesting element of these books their outright refusal to play by the base rules of the genre. While there are magical gadgets, spells, castles and monsters, it&#8217;s clearly not those that Le Guin is interested in. Where a Wizard of Earthsea was about one boy&#8217;s journey to discover and master the evil in himself, the Tombs is about a clash of worldviews and belief systems, one religiously closed and involved in power struggle, the other, though based in magic, rational and open, and striving to find balance. In a nutshell, these stories are driven by psychological archetypes (the dark of the tombs, the faceless evil) than by plot, in fact, so much so that I wondered why there needed to be any magic in them at all &#8211; the fantasy elements are, so far at least, quite superficial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved Le Guins The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness, so even though I&#8217;m not very keen on people in pointy hats throwing speels (unless they&#8217;re called Gandalf, obviously) I thought I&#8217;d give Earthsea a shot, and I&#8217;m glad I did. Like with her other books, I found the most interesting element of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,26,22,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-englisch","category-fantasy","category-good","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}