Alan Garner chat transcript

[altariel]

Thank you to the wondrous katlinel for directing me to this transcript of a webchat with Alan Garner, in which land, language, writing and history are discussed, and the phrase "Mabinogiongoing plans" is coined.

communicator, this remark may interest you, about not-writing:

"I look on the 'down' as an imposed period of hibernation that allows the unconscious and creative mind to overcome the rational intellect."

Comments

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

>Mabinogiongoing

Brilliance!


I have never read Alan Garner before. I shall have to. Thank you for bringing him and his former Mabinogiongoing to my attention!
:)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Oh definitely track down Alan Garner, he is wonderful! Not well enough known outside this country.

His first two books, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath I find quite Tolkien derivative, but with books like The Owl Service and Red Shift his individual voice comes through. My favourite of his is The Stone Book Quartet.

[steverogerson.livejournal.com]

Weirdstone of Brisingamen was the Garner book I read, and I was about ten years old and loved it. I have since read Moon of Gomrath and Elidor, both when I was not much older, and it is Elidor that sticks in my mind as the favourite,

[communicator.livejournal.com]

I think you'd like his later stuff. Red Shift is pretty special.