![]() ![]() Okay, now I’m interested, and here Dodds succeeds in employing resurrection as a nifty supernatural hook that kept me eagerly reading. Then the narrator nonchalantly informs us Harry later came back from the dead. ![]() Thankfully, this is not the case with Colin Dodds’ latest novel, Pharoni, because Dodds boldly opens the novel describing the death of a thirty-six-year-old guy by the name of Harry. ![]() Even in the fantasy genre, the resurrection device is always in danger of coming across as just a cheap storytelling device. Gandalf the Grey’s resurrection in The Two Towers as Gandalf the White undermines his self-sacrifice in neutralizing the balrog in The Fellowship of the Ring. Furthermore, the gravity of a character’s self-sacrifice may also be undermined and subverted through resurrection. In re-watching the TV series Game of Thrones, the mutinous stabbing of Jon Snow now strikes me as just a cheap and shocking farce. Though with the notable exception of the biblical Christ, in most works of literature the loss we feel when one of our favorite characters is killed off is often undermined and subverted by the deus ex machina of resurrection. Martin’s Game of Thrones, part of me now wonders if we’re now in for a resurrected trope of resurrected characters in literature. Thanks to the residual and resounding success of George R.R. ![]()
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