Pháp sư xứ Hải Địa

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Ursula K. Le Guin: Pháp sư xứ Hải Địa (Vietnamese language, 2008, Nhã Nam, NXB Hội nhà văn)

343 pages

Vietnamese language

Published Nov. 10, 2008 by Nhã Nam, NXB Hội nhà văn.

OCLC Number:
271423315

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4 stars (5 reviews)

A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.

45 editions

reviewed A wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1)

Satisfying ending, but kind of a slog to get there

2 stars

I think I would've liked this more when I was 14.

I don't know what I was expecting with this, but I guess it wasn't a pretty bog standard fantasy wizard novel with all the trimmings, and more than a few tired tropes.

I suppose you could point out that this novel was written at a time when modern fantasy novel basically meant Lord of the Rings, when a lot of these tropes were new, and with this book Le Guin literally invented the young wizard coming of age subgenre.

You might even excuse the patriarchal society of Earthsea — including the shockingly unchallenged assertion that "women's magic" is weaker than "men's magic" — as a reflection of the patriarchal 1960's US society Le Guin wrote it in. Certainly, in the afterword of the edition I read, Le Guin talks about how she felt writing about a young brown-skinned teen …

Subjects

  • Fantasy
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Wizards
  • Magic
  • Fiction