A tire d'Ailes, Takeo the Heron's back? I really ask myself this question ... How impatiently I threw myself on the fourth and final volume of fabulous Clan Otori by Lian Hearn. The author was rewarded with an epic that I have already commented, quality and a unique and extremely bill original. This latest installment, the "end" of the Otori clan, was expected as a new literary miracle.
And the spell is still operating, although Lian Hearn has completely changed the pattern of his work. The carving is so different. With long epic chapters are substituted 55 short chapters five to twelve pages. Where the first three volumes consisted in the memories of the young Takeo, therefore written in first person, it is narrated by an omniscient narrator external. However we are lulled by the true talent of the author as a storyteller who loses his eminently still epic. We is on the verge of falling into the soap on the first two hundred pages.
The story opens by stating that a big fifteen years has passed. Takeo and Kaede rule the three countries they govern in peace and prosperity. They have three daughters, one arrives at the age of taking power in the domain of Maruyama. All goes well until everything collapses ... nothing new!
It is always difficult to try to book a ticket on a built-in a series, especially the ends, as is obviously the famous "end" chosen by the author that one is inclined to criticize, at least to assess in terms of his own reading of the characters. Without revealing it, I really need to say I do not like this. If it matches the spirit of a work that itself is trying to convey that of an epoch, a culture, we reach the denouement a little like a hair in the soup for the sole purpose theater, spectacular, there where all the work was done by necessity, fate, the inevitable rigidity of the codes of human conduct. Strange. Damage. But a great memory remain after digestion ...
And the spell is still operating, although Lian Hearn has completely changed the pattern of his work. The carving is so different. With long epic chapters are substituted 55 short chapters five to twelve pages. Where the first three volumes consisted in the memories of the young Takeo, therefore written in first person, it is narrated by an omniscient narrator external. However we are lulled by the true talent of the author as a storyteller who loses his eminently still epic. We is on the verge of falling into the soap on the first two hundred pages.
The story opens by stating that a big fifteen years has passed. Takeo and Kaede rule the three countries they govern in peace and prosperity. They have three daughters, one arrives at the age of taking power in the domain of Maruyama. All goes well until everything collapses ... nothing new!
It is always difficult to try to book a ticket on a built-in a series, especially the ends, as is obviously the famous "end" chosen by the author that one is inclined to criticize, at least to assess in terms of his own reading of the characters. Without revealing it, I really need to say I do not like this. If it matches the spirit of a work that itself is trying to convey that of an epoch, a culture, we reach the denouement a little like a hair in the soup for the sole purpose theater, spectacular, there where all the work was done by necessity, fate, the inevitable rigidity of the codes of human conduct. Strange. Damage. But a great memory remain after digestion ...
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