| Re: Wuxia genre
In my previous post I omitted to say that I loved the first third of the Condor. The rest repeats itself to death.
Jin Yong published it as a serialised novel. It was in the 50s, and people would queue up at the newstands to get the last episode. It was a real fad in China.
What I didn't like was the "ritual" skip in the timeline, by which I mean that, after a chapter written as real time action, a magically-elliptic sentence relates one year of the story. This comes up a lot in the second part of the book.
The first time it's funny and you don't mind, the fifth time it's annoying, and you think: "What a lazy writer, our Jin Yong!"
I suspect it was made on purpose in several popular novels. |