![]() The artistic dimension of this bright cosmology added hues to my reading of the Manticore, the Persian beast.Īs I continue to the third volume I expect Robertson’s own magic will occupy center stage again… The ending of this novel with the exotic title, indicated that this could very well be the case as he seemed to be turning his back to Jungian lore.Īlthough the Red Book will still haunt me. Often in my reading of this dramatization of the Archetypes, I kept thinking of one of the rooms in the 2013 Venice Biennale, where they showed Carl Jung’s extraordinary The Red Book: Liber Novus. I felt as if he had donned someone else’s habit. Robertson no longer seemed the magician with his words, but instead an apprentice trying to emulate, explain, elucidate, apply, explore, a set of theories that are not his. This made the novel suffer somewhat, however. The world of conjurors and miracles and tricks of the hat has given way to the universe of Jungian Archetypes. Thank god, (or thanks the saints?) it was not Freudian rant, since I have very little patience with that the Jungian mode is the one developed instead. This time it appeared in the guise of psychoanalysis. , I could expect fantasy to continue in this second volume. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If the first volume of this trilogy had me dreaming about saints. ![]()
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