After reading and loving Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, I wanted to delve more into Arthurian literature. I keep seeing Once and Future King recommended, but I'm wary because it's a (((modern deconstruction))), is it actually good?
>>25340318It's good and doesn't subvert or shit on the story if that's what worries youAlthough I was like you and the book will make you HATE Gawain as a character (he gets a little redemption at the end though)
>>25340318Idk anything about The Once and Future King, but check out The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle.
>>25340318>but I'm wary because it's a (((modern deconstruction))), is it actually good?It's a four book series, the first is slow and not really Arthurian as much as its a proto-Hippie hagiography to the English countryside, the second is where it starts to be about the King Arthur you know. The third, the Ill Made Knight is brilliant and surprisingly mature for its audience but falls into the trap that all of these apostilling 20th century Englishmen who saw the rural England of their childhoods as the pinnacle of human history stumble into, and you have to read it with a bit of wry irony appreciating that everything that White and Lewis and other double and triple abbreviated authors fought so hard for was about to vanish in the course of a few decades. Still, the Ill Made Knight is my favourite Authorian retelling. The Candle in the Wind is a bad novel. You have to read it to bring the saga to its end but it's a poor rehashing of the first novel awkwardly tacked onto the third.
>>25340318This book was based upon a true character.
>I'm wary because it's a (((modern deconstruction)))>"On the plains of Bedegraine Arthur is making final preparations for battle. He announces his idea of the Round Table and Merlyn informs him that another king has such a table. This king is the father of Arthur's future wife, Guenever. Sir Kay, Arthur's foster-brother, says that he believes that if war will help the conquered race to live a better life, they should be conquered. Merlyn angrily informs him that there is a certain Austrian who shares Kay's views, and "plunged the world into bloody chaos." This is an allusion to Adolf Hitler."From the wikipedia synopsis of the second book.Also,>According to Sylvia Townsend Warner's 1967 biography, White was "a homosexual and a sado-masochist."
>>25340427Great, it's to be avoided, thanks. Looks like Mort D'Arthur and early poetry are the only untainted forms of the legends
>>25340460Try Tennyson's Idylls of the King, it's the thing that revived the Arthurian tradition after centuries of dormancy.
>>25340460>Looks like Mort D'Arthur and early poetry are the only untainted forms of the legendsLiterally anything mentioning Lancelot is as original as Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century.
>>25340427>White was "a homosexual and a sado-masochist."based
>>25340460I hate people like you
>>25340460Zased and keyed
>>25340460Based, just do that.>>25341680YWNBAW nobody cares about your gay modern "deconstructions" they're always shit and can never compare to the originals. Go suck a big dingalong and deconstruct your ANUS you MASSIVE FAGGOT!!!!!
>>25341680Let me guess, you thought The Green Knight 2021 was a brilliant subversive post-modern deconstruction of toxic White storytelling and praised the garbage
>>25340318>>25340460You should also read:The Mabinogian (1949 Jones & Jones Tr.)The Complete Romances of Chrétien de Troyes (David Staines Tr.)The Faerie Queene - Edmund Spenser
>>25340318Morte d'Arthur or nothing. >waaah! But it's written all medievaly! Get cultured!
