Thank you! I have difficulty looking at anything I wrote more than a couple of years ago and not wincing, so anything from more than ten years ago is difficult.
What did you think of Karr's characterizations of Mordred and his brothers?
My formative Mordred was the somewhat extra-canonical one of Elizabeth E. Wein's The Winter Prince (1993), but working as strictly within Malory as Karr does, I really like hers, especially the tension you identified between self-destructing and self-fulfilling, and I love his relationship with Kay which is ninety percent mutual aggravation and ten percent WHAT ARE EMOTIONS. I think her characterization of the other sons of Lot works very well in terms of making human behavior out of canonical events; I don't think I would consider any of them my definitive versions.
I have read only one other book by Karr, but as seen in comments, her entire career appears to be unapologetically cracktastic to the max.
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Date: 2020-07-22 02:55 pm (UTC)Thank you! I have difficulty looking at anything I wrote more than a couple of years ago and not wincing, so anything from more than ten years ago is difficult.
What did you think of Karr's characterizations of Mordred and his brothers?
My formative Mordred was the somewhat extra-canonical one of Elizabeth E. Wein's The Winter Prince (1993), but working as strictly within Malory as Karr does, I really like hers, especially the tension you identified between self-destructing and self-fulfilling, and I love his relationship with Kay which is ninety percent mutual aggravation and ten percent WHAT ARE EMOTIONS. I think her characterization of the other sons of Lot works very well in terms of making human behavior out of canonical events; I don't think I would consider any of them my definitive versions.
I have read only one other book by Karr, but as seen in comments, her entire career appears to be unapologetically cracktastic to the max.