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A.S. Byatt's Ragnarok is a lurid retelling of the death of the Norse gods in which intricately woven depictions of nature take center stage. Poetic and insightful, it will remind you not a little of Rachel Carson's nature writing, with a matching insightful prescience.
Byatt makes it clear that any good myth makes no attempt at allegory, but it's hard not to see our own current situation — of environmental degradation, short-sightedness, greed, and ambivalence — in that of the gods' downfall in Ragnarok (which the author addresses in the afterward).
Byatt makes it clear that any good myth makes no attempt at allegory, but it's hard not to see our own current situation — of environmental degradation, short-sightedness, greed, and ambivalence — in that of the gods' downfall in Ragnarok (which the author addresses in the afterward).