Serão lançadas novas edições dos clássicos da fantasia The Worm of Ouroboros e para a trilogia Zimiamvian de Eric Rücker Eddison (1882-1945), em Outubro de 2014. Isto parece-me uma óptima ideia e já agora, que tal traduzir os livros para português?
The Worm of Ouroboros (1922)
The lost classic masterpiece of magical realms, admired by Tolkien and
the great prototype for The Lord of the Rings and modern fantasy
fiction.
On the far side of the eldritch darkness lies a
world where two mighty forces are making ready for a war of kingdom
against kingdom, warrior against witch, and honour against treachery.
Greater
than human and torn by greater passions than mere mortals can know, the
adventure-loving lords of Demonland will be pitted against the cruel
enchantments of the witch-king Gorice XII. Now in glory and terror, as
swords cross with clash of steel, they begin their odyssey toward a
towering enchanted mountain where awaits salvation … or doom.
E.R.
Eddison’s masterpiece stands as one of the great prototypes of modern
fantasy fiction. An epic of marvels and magic, this wholly created world
sets forth the intricately woven themes of high adventure, sorcery, and
the primal conflict between good and evil that transport the
imagination to visionary realms and paves the way to our favourite
authors today.
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Mistress of Mistresses (1935)
The first volume in the classic epic
trilogy of parallel worlds, admired by Tolkien.
According
to legend, the Gates of Zimiamvia lead to a land ‘that no mortal foot
may tread, but that souls of the dead that were great upon earth do
inhabit.’ Here they forever live, love, do battle, and even die again.
Edward Lessingham – artist, poet, king of men and lover of women – is
dead. But from Aphrodite herself, the Mistress of Mistresses, he has
earned the promise to live again with the gods in Zimiamvia in return
for her own perilous future favours.
This sequel to The Worm Ouroboros
recounts the story of Lessingham’s first day in this strange Valhalla,
where a lifetime is a day and where - among enemies, enchantments, guile
and triumph – his destiny can be rewritten.
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A Fish Dinner in Memison (1941)
The second volume in the
classic epic trilogy of parallel worlds, admired by Tolkien.
A
lady strays from a garden path and enters a different realm. A king
wages dynastic war for control of three kingdoms. As villains plot to
take control of an alternate world inhabited by the souls of the dead, a
mysterious, magical woman seeks her destiny, igniting a splendid
pageantry of battles and quests, poisonous love and triumphant passion,
doomed loyalties and unsurpassed courage.
And while Edward Lessingham
engages in an earthly romance in twentieth-century England, seduction in
Zimiamvia takes place over the most lavish of banquets…
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The Mezentian Gate (1958)
The third volume in the
classic epic trilogy of parallel worlds, admired by Tolkien.
E.
R. Eddison was the author of three of the most remarkable fantasies in
the English language:
The Worm Ouroboros,
Mistress of Mistresses and
A
Fish Dinner in Memison.
Linked together as separate parts of one vast
romantic epic, fans who clamoured for more were finally rewarded 13
years after Eddison’s death with the publication of the uncompleted
fourth novel, written during the dark years of the Second World War.
This new edition of
The Mezentian Gate includes additional narrative
fragments of the story missing from the original 1958 edition.
Together
with an illuminating introduction by Eddison scholar Paul Edmund Thomas,
this volume returns Edward Lessingham to the extravagant realm of
Zimiamvia and concludes one of the most extraordinary and influential
fantasy series ever written.
