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francoisvigneault's review against another edition
5.0
Just re-read it on vacation and it was delightful... the language is deft, the situations comic, and the overall reading experience is wholly cozy and charming. I love the odd palimpsest quality of the writing, Lord Dunsany is writing in a purposefully archaic style to echo the "Golden Age of Spain" setting, but even those moments where his "modern" viewpoint peeks through are now nearly 100 years old, giving several stylistic layers for the reader to parse. The section where Don Rodriguez gets a glimpse of the horrors of the "Wars of the Future" is terribly affecting when you realize this was written in 1922... The Great War had just concluded, bu the Spanish Civil War is just around the corner and WWII right after.
Overall just a lovely and smooth reading experience, transports you to another world of adventure and hijinks but never fully loses a modern point of view that inevitably colors the tale with a palpable sense of nostalgia, loss, mortality, and regret.
Overall just a lovely and smooth reading experience, transports you to another world of adventure and hijinks but never fully loses a modern point of view that inevitably colors the tale with a palpable sense of nostalgia, loss, mortality, and regret.
francoisvigneault's review
5.0
Just re-read it on vacation and it was delightful... the language is deft, the situations comic, and the overall reading experience is wholly cozy and charming. I love the odd palimpsest quality of the writing, Lord Dunsany is writing in a purposefully archaic style to echo the "Golden Age of Spain" setting, but even those moments where his "modern" viewpoint peeks through are now nearly 100 years old, giving several stylistic layers for the reader to parse. The section where Don Rodriguez gets a glimpse of the horrors of the "Wars of the Future" is terribly affecting when you realize this was written in 1922... The Great War had just concluded, bu the Spanish Civil War is just around the corner and WWII right after.
Overall just a lovely and smooth reading experience, transports you to another world of adventure and hijinks but never fully loses a modern point of view that inevitably colors the tale with a palpable sense of nostalgia, loss, mortality, and regret.
Overall just a lovely and smooth reading experience, transports you to another world of adventure and hijinks but never fully loses a modern point of view that inevitably colors the tale with a palpable sense of nostalgia, loss, mortality, and regret.
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