Shardik bear5/20/2023 ![]() He is not anthropomorphized but becomes in turn a totemic manifestation, a living instrument of the ""power of God,"" a vehicle of ethnic destiny, a tortured prisoner of man's ignorance and cruelty, and at last the Redeemer, whose sacrificial death brings about a community of love and peace. This time, the animal is the huge bear Shardik, thudding through the forests of a nowhere land named Ortelga. Lewis Nardian/Wagnerian brush with religious evolutions. ![]() ![]() As one who, with the Elysian benefits of a classical education, takes to epic simile in the full knowledge that a plunge down the rabbit hole of myth-locked fantasy can be a hop-away best seller - one that so handsomely indicates that the public can ingest mope - so Richard Adams, author of Watership Down, spreads his scope, not only from rabbit to the magnitude of giant bear, but also from a Tolkien/Grahame adventure to a C.S. ![]()
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