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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I was not expecting this to be this good and imaginative. The story of an emperor that challenges the destiny that his very gods had intended for him, going through different lands and realms of reality, with their own rules and magic, was endlessly creative and interesting. Now I understand why this was so influential. ( ) Es dificil a veces volver hacia atrás, a los cimientos de un género literario y no tener la sensación de cliché. Se que el Elric de Moorcock fue pionero en el Fantasy por muchas cosas, pero su lectura me resultó bastante formulera. Al parecer lo mas rompedor de esta novela fue la condiciòn de antihéroe de su protagonista, pero creo que Elric no lo es tanto, por lo menos en esta primer entrada, es un Rey, a quien le secuestran a su novia, y se pasa el libro de misión en misión, tratando de rescatarla. Su moral es bastante clara, e incluso superior a la de sus compatriotas. Lo más "distinto" de Elric como héroe es su apariencia, y tampoco creo que esto juegue demasiado en la trama. En fin, que es entretenido, razonablemente corto y tiene algunas ideas interesantes (el barco que anda por tierra; el espejo que roba la memoria y que al romperse invade de recuerdo ajenos el cerebro de quienes estan cerca; la manipulacion de los dioses/demonios). Al parecer en sus secuelas mejora. no reviews | add a review
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HTML: It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair that flows below his shoulders is milk-white. From the tapering, beautiful head stare two slanting eyes, crimson and moody.... He is Elric, Emperor of Melnibone, cursed with a keen and cynical intelligence, schooled in the art of sorcery -- the hero of Michael Moorcock's remarkable epic of conflict and adventure at the dawn of human history... Included is a dramatic introduction read by Michael Moorcock over 10 mins in length. .No library descriptions found. |
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