Mythago Wood: 1 (Mythago Cycle)

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I cannot remember my folklore well enough, but it intrigues me to think that tales -of Arthur and his Knights, perhaps (Sir Kay? The setting is convincing, though there were distracting missteps and aggravations that had me rolling my eyes.

Narrada en primera persona a través de Steven Huxley y a través de un lenguaje directo y sencillo, pero sin dejar de lado un aspecto literario cuidado y poético en ocasiones; nos adentramos en la historia poco a poco, conociendo conceptos y descubrimientos de primera mano, pero sin establecerse tales como verdades absolutas, sino más bien ideas simples bastante incompletas que podemos ir teorizando a lo largo de la novela. She’s apparently some Jungian archetype, and I think we are supposed to be impressed that the author read Jung and put Jungian archetypes in his story (sans nuance or character arc, sadly). By mining the rich vein of British myth and tying it to both the Jungian subconscious and the magical influence of an acient living forest he managed to create a fantasy work that was both epic in scope and personal in its resonance. There were a few elements that seemed thrown in without purpose -- myths that didn't seem to fit, characters who Steven was told had to be "left behind" when he didn't even know they were with him. The book itself defines a mythago as a "myth imago, the image of the idealized form of a myth creature".I spent days meditating and trying to ‘touch’ the world I was creating, and some very sinister and frightening waking horrors emerged as a consequence. She is mentioned in Mythago Wood, but her suicide becomes a major issue in Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn. I enjoyed reading about these old legends that were completely new to me, and seeing how they transformed into something tangible within the wood.

It’s not soft, his heroes suffer as do all the true heroes of myth, and in Mythago Wood all that is left is hope, but then what are stories for if not to carry the candlelight of hope from generation to generation?The principle protagonist learns of the unbelievable powers of the wood and believes it immediately. During this time, Steven is figuring out what's going on in the woods and he meets and falls in love with Guiwenneth (yes, the same girl that his father and brother loved). It is full of enticing shadows, and reminiscent of the dream-like aura we fondly remember in childhood confrontations in the face of incomprehensible Nature. The mystery of Ryhope Wood, Britain's last fragment of primeval forest, consumed George Huxley's entire, and long, life. Jude, Dick Fantasy Art Masters: The Best Fantasy and Science Fiction Artists and How They Work, (London: HarperCollins, 1999), page 43.