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Originally Posted by Connavar of Rigante  He must have quite the imagination then to come up with his ideas.
Im in the end the of the first book where you see Arioch, his views on things and the hole island of his is fascinating.
I must say its shocking to know Moorcock didnt create his hole world before publishing, that he didnt have his created world,history figured out way before he put everything down.
Its actually refereshing, its not often you read authors like that. Atleast not so far for me. |
From my understanding (and do not take this as gospel, by any means), Moorcock does plot things out, and when it comes to his "created world" for a particular work, he has that planned out (at least in general; some specific details may only be sketched in to begin with, to develop as the story gets written); but... when you do something as sprawling and as convoluted as the Eternal Champion cycle, with its enormous ramifications and various growing philosophical points, then having everything planned ahead very much puts you in a straitjacket, and it shows. A lot of Moorcock is very conscious, but I'd say the heart of his work is often unconscious and comes from within; and this is what gives his work conviction as a whole (individual works may or may not have that, but taken in its entirety, it's definitely there).