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Porius: A Novel (Hardcover)

by John Cowper Powys (Author), Morine Krissdottir (Editor), Judith Bond (Editor)

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Hardcover: 624 pages
Publisher: Duckworth & Co (11 Oct 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1585673668
ISBN-13: 978-1585673667
Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15 x 4.6 cm

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'A dense, complex merging of modern psychology and ancient mythology ... The astutely envisaged world and the operatic romantic couplings quickly draw in the reader' --The New Yorker

'This mythical masterpiece ... [is] fit to be compared both for ambition and achievement with 'Ulysses'' --Margaret Drabble, TLS

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This is a grand 'romance of the dark ages' - available in its full form for the first time. Widely regarded as Powys' finest achievement in fiction, "Porius" has never been published in its intended form - until now. The culmination of a lifelong passion for Wales and its mythology, "Porius" is at once a historical novel and a commentary on the nature of modern warfare. It is the year 499. The Saxons and their forest-people allies are advancing upon a Roman fort in North Wales in a desperate attempt to save the remnants of their matriarchate. Arthur has sent ahead Merlin, Nineue, and Medrawd, to help the beleaguered son of the reigning prince, Porius. Powys, a self-labelled 'born Inventor of Fairy Tales', transformed the people and animals of his Welsh village into the mythical figures that haunt Porius' primeval woods. Severely cut by previous publishers, this edition, newly edited by two pre-eminent Powys scholars, is "Porius" as Powys would have wanted what he considered 'the chief work of my lifetime'.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Massive Myth-making Masterpiece, 4 April 2008

By	Edward Barry "Out of the ordinary comes..?" (Suffolk, England) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

Surely the most criminally neglected English novel of all time?

This is truly a huge book in all aspects; size - 750 pages of beautifully dense closely scripted prose, but also scope - for Powys attempts a rare and ambitious thesis of describing the very process by which myths are manufactured. In describing events ocurring during just one week in 499A.D.he far exceeds the torpid Fantasy genre that could easily claim this novel as their own. Yes all the names are their (with appropriately alternative spellings, Arthur, Merlin, Taliesin et al) but, most importantly, they form a mythopoetic backdrop for a much more historically specific drama to ripple outwards.

A very easy novel to misjudge by its cover, even its blurb. However for those who would enjoy the meatiest read of an almost Shakespearean scope addled with a Proustian sensitivity, Lawrentian eroticism and an almost Joycean fixation with language this could be the one for you. All four literary giants are namechecked in reviews by much more intelligent readers then myself on the back cover!

Simply the best novel I have encountered this millenium...and then some.

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