Joseph Conrad--Science Fiction's Leading Man?
Joseph Conrad's Science Fiction novel--written in collaboration with Ford Madox Ford
In case you want to read it: The Inheritors
In case you want to read it: The Inheritors
Robert de Boron and the Prose Merlin
There are so many wonderful things about the internet: there was a time when a scholar had to order through ILL and wait for weeks or months before he or she could set eyes on such works as Geoffrey of Monmouth's Vita Merlini or Robert de Boron's Prose Merlin . No more. from Prose Merlin Robert de Boron Full wrothe and angry was the Devell, whan that oure Lorde hadde ben in helle and had take oute Adam and Eve and other at his plesier. And whan the fendes sien that, they hadden right grete feer and gret merveile. Thei assembleden togedir and seiden: "What is he this thus us supprisith and distroyeth, in so moche that oure strengthes ne nought ellis that we have may nought withholde hym, nor again hym stonde in no diffence but that he doth all that hym lyketh? We ne trowed not that eny man myght be bore of woman but that he sholde ben oures; and he that thus us distroyeth, how is he born in whom we knewe non erthely delyte?" Than ansuerde anothir fende and seide
Steven,
ReplyDeleteFord and Conrad actually have three collaborations, which I have read and enjoyed.
_The Inheritors_ main theme is a common one in Ford's writings--the replacement of the old ways in England by the new. In this story, it's by aliens, in _No More Parades_, it's by the new technical classes in England. _In The Good Soldier_ and others, it's by Americans.
_The Inheritors_, in spite of the blogger's comments, is not hard to find. Abebooks has over 400 copies available, so I don't know what he is suggesting.