- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Rider & Co (20 July 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 071267666X
- ISBN-13: 978-0712676663
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,327,565 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The author of the million-copy best-seller Ageless Body, Timeless Mind emerges as a powerful new force in fiction with a luminously written novel about the final act of the Arthurian legend playing out in modern England. The Return of Merlin is a brilliantly realized narrative that begins in Arthurian times and jumps boldly to our own 20th-century dark age of war, pollution, predation, and hatred--with a message of hope.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
When Deepak Chopra publishes, readers take note. And when he writes about the
Arthurian Tales, what can one say? Intertwining his sense of mysticism, his intellectual scope, and a
fast-paced, very moving, novel in one is a bit much to hope for! But in "The Return of Merlin,"
Chopra has accomplished this feat. Not an "easy read" generally, Chopra's magical touch with the
printed word maintains his reputation in this tale from Arthur.
Arthurian Tales, what can one say? Intertwining his sense of mysticism, his intellectual scope, and a
fast-paced, very moving, novel in one is a bit much to hope for! But in "The Return of Merlin,"
Chopra has accomplished this feat. Not an "easy read" generally, Chopra's magical touch with the
printed word maintains his reputation in this tale from Arthur.
In his introduction, Chopra writes that "The Return of Merlin" is about waking up the
wizard that sleeps within all of us, so that we can reclaim the field of pure knowledge and dream
anew world into reality, from the purity of our hearts."
"Merlin" is another odyssey of life, a story of the traditional good vs. evil and the struggles
therein. It is a story that erases the confines of time. "To be alive now," he writes, "is to be dead to
the past. To be alive now is to have life-centered, present-moment awareness...(and) you will
discover the dance of the divine in every leaf, in every petal...in every rainbow...in every breath of
every living being." A momumental undertaking, to be sure.
Taking the Arthurian characters, from Merlin to Arthur to Mordred with a cast of many
others, and mixing in a complete disregard for any logical historical time frame, Chopra explores
this struggle, this "to be or not to be" of Camelot. Despite its frenzy, its whirlwind of action and
activity, "The Return of Merlin" is at once captivating, suspenseful, mesmerizing, combining
elements of spectacular hope and goodness and the depravitiy--nay, the power-- of penultimate
evil, Chopra shatters the pastoral hillsides of our psyche with this very-readable narrative.
Scholarly--yet quite readable!, the book is a page-turner. Chopra's magic comes alive in a work
that is satisfactory and fulfilling. (Billyjhobbs@tyler.net)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book really surprised me.The Merlin myth and similar tales usually bore me but the literary skills of Deepak shocked me.Had this been a late novel of a successful writer I'd have expected this standard but for a first? novel - brilliant!
His skills with plot, characterisation and imagination are stunning.The crow character is delightful and so unusual.
I would put this book in my top ten.
His skills with plot, characterisation and imagination are stunning.The crow character is delightful and so unusual.
I would put this book in my top ten.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
For those expecting yet another version of the Arthurian saga, this is not a conventional tale of the Round Table. In actual fact one can barely call it an adaptation of the story. This is an instance where a theme from the original tale is cleverly woven into a contemporary setting, which results in this fantastical novel. Although set in modern times, not before very long events take place which displace the characters' as well as the readers' perceptions of time, space and reality. The entire book revolves around the theme of how we define reality. Beyond that it is a traditional tale of good and evil, told in a most unconventional way, by a deeply imaginative author. The story captivates from the very start. First of all, the reader is keen to find out what the involvement of Merlin can possibly turn out to be in a seemingly modern novel. As the events unfold, we are transported into a world of possibilities beyond belief, and yet the dreamer in us reserves the right to entertain an inkling of hope that it all is real and that we indeed can change the world we live in, just as the characters of the book succeed in doing. I am certain that even the least likely follower of Arthurian lore will be captivated by this intriguing tale. Those readers familiar with the work of Deepak Chopra will be thrilled to find his philosophy spill over into this brilliantly thought out novel. If you are not afraid to suspend your belief for a little while, The Return of Merlin, will prove to be a worthy read.
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