A review by enantiodromos
The Eternal Champion by Michael Moorcock

5.0

This story stands out from the fantasy of Moorcock (of whom I'm fond generally) because it is a potent and memorable example of ultimate character development: the story of a true shift of loyalty and a rediscovery of one's own fundamental values. If all mythology and modern fantasy has, in some sense, the goal of showing the ideal of personal transformation, I can think of very few books besides another favorite (Hesse's Magister Ludi/The Glass Bead Game) that do it as well.

Which is not to say it's an uplifting book, as it's clearly a bitter (not to say unsympathetic or singleminded) look at race relations, nationalism, and nuclear armageddon.