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2009 Books XLI-XLIV
XLI: Michael Moorcock, The Final Programme
XLII: Michael Moorcock, A Cure for Cancer
XLIII: Michael Moorcock, The English Assassin
XLIV: Michael Moorcock, The Condition of Muzak
I read one or more of these years ago, in order to read The Condition of Muzak, which comes bound with EA. I'm not sure how far I got as it rings little bells - Cornelius is a version of the hero with a thousand faces, closer to Ripley than to Bond, and a variant on the Eternal Champion in contemporary(ish) thriller mode. It's taken me a month to read these four - I should polished them off ina few days. I foudn them somewhat baffling, and need to go back to the fourth one.
There's an ensemble cast - Jerry's siblings Frank and Catherine, his mother, the time travelling Una Persson, Colonel Nye, Bishop Beesley, Colonel Pyat - who appear at intervals and strut their stuff. There's no character development as such - these are archetypes, and JC is somewhat different in each volume - white, black, dead, at various points in history. JC is also associated with the Harlequin, somewhat of a trickster, pantomime figure.
It's intercut with extracts from journals and newspapers, many featuring crimes and scandals.
XLII: Michael Moorcock, A Cure for Cancer
XLIII: Michael Moorcock, The English Assassin
XLIV: Michael Moorcock, The Condition of Muzak
I read one or more of these years ago, in order to read The Condition of Muzak, which comes bound with EA. I'm not sure how far I got as it rings little bells - Cornelius is a version of the hero with a thousand faces, closer to Ripley than to Bond, and a variant on the Eternal Champion in contemporary(ish) thriller mode. It's taken me a month to read these four - I should polished them off ina few days. I foudn them somewhat baffling, and need to go back to the fourth one.
There's an ensemble cast - Jerry's siblings Frank and Catherine, his mother, the time travelling Una Persson, Colonel Nye, Bishop Beesley, Colonel Pyat - who appear at intervals and strut their stuff. There's no character development as such - these are archetypes, and JC is somewhat different in each volume - white, black, dead, at various points in history. JC is also associated with the Harlequin, somewhat of a trickster, pantomime figure.
It's intercut with extracts from journals and newspapers, many featuring crimes and scandals.