Silverlock by John Myers Myers

[hitmouse]

It depends if you want to get all of the references in the book. Personally I would just go for the straight novel.

 

[Sargeant_Fox]

Last July I read Silverlock and I'm glad I did, it was great fun.

I came for the metafiction but I stayed for the unexpected spiritual allegory. I found it very interesting that the narrative is explicitly the journey of a soul from a nihilistic stance to a healing that allows it to return to society with a new love for life. Perhaps I found this more interesting than it is because I have a particular interest in the rise of nihilism in the early 1900s and philosophical responses to it, so I was reading it through this lens. It's as if John Myers Myers captured a major concern of the late 1940s.

For instance, I couldn't help thinking of Silverlock's poet-guide without thinking of Theodore Watts-Dunton's Poetry and the Renascence of Wonder or Helmut Kuhn's essay "True Poetry is Praise" (1947) and how there was (is) this hope that poetry could one day save society from the materialistic/atheistic/scientific worldview. Was not expecting it from a mid-century fantasy novel. What a lovely surprise!

 

[BAYLOR]

Last July I read Silverlock and I'm glad I did, it was great fun.

I came for the metafiction but I stayed for the unexpected spiritual allegory. I found it very interesting that the narrative is explicitly the journey of a soul from a nihilistic stance to a healing that allows it to return to society with a new love for life. Perhaps I found this more interesting than it is because I have a particular interest in the rise of nihilism in the early 1900s and philosophical responses to it, so I was reading it through this lens. It's as if John Myers Myers captured a major concern of the late 1940s.

For instance, I couldn't help thinking of Silverlock's poet-guide without thinking of Theodore Watts-Dunton's Poetry and the Renascence of Wonder or Helmut Kuhn's essay "True Poetry is Praise" (1947) and how there was (is) this hope that poetry could one day save society from the materialistic/atheistic/scientific worldview. Was not expecting it from a mid-century fantasy novel. What a lovely surprise!

I thye ever did a movie adaptation of Silverlock the actor id want to play Shandon Siverlock would be Hugh Grant. He was born to play that character,