Description
| Product ID: | 9780252085758 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Roger Zelazny |
| Authors: | Author: F. Brett Cox |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Biography: writers, Biography: literary, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Challenging convention with the SF nonconformistRoger Zelazny combined poetic prose with fearless literary ambition to become one of the most influential science fiction writers of the 1960s. Yet many critics found his later novels underachieving and his turn to fantasy a disappointment. F. Brett Cox surveys the landscape of Zelazny's creative life and contradictions. Launched by the classic 1963 short story "A Rose for Ecclesiastes," Zelazny soon won the Hugo Award for Best Novel with …And Call Me Conrad and two years later won again for Lord of Light. Cox looks at the author's overnight success and follows Zelazny into a period of continued formal experimentation, the commercial triumph of the Amber sword and sorcery novels, and renewed acclaim for Hugo-winning novellas such as "Home Is the Hangman" and "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai." Throughout, Cox analyzes aspects of Zelazny's art, from his preference for poetically alienated protagonists to the ways his plots reflected his determined individualism. Clear-eyed and detailed, Roger Zelazny provides an up-to-date reconsideration of an often-misunderstood SF maverick. |
| Imprint Name: | University of Illinois Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of Illinois Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-05-11 |
