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S'està carregant… Vision of Tarot (edició 1987)de Piers Anthony
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. This is the middle book of the Tarot trilogy, and is no standalone. Like say, Lord of the Rings, the three books are really one novel, not three novels with the same world and characters, so you should really read God of Tarot first. Brother Paul of the Holy Order of Vision is a monk on a future Earth that has expanded to the stars. He's sent by the head of his order to investigate reports that God has appeared on the planet Tarot. The previous book was framed by the first 9 trump cards of the Tarot, this novel is framed by the 11 more trump cards. I discovered this trilogy in my teens right around the time I became fascinated with the Tarot. I'm really the opposite of a New Ager, and don't believe any deck of cards have powers or that the tarot cards have a mystical past going back to Egypt, but I loved the art and symbols of it all, so I adored how Anthony played with it and religious and spiritual themes. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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Four out of the eleven chapters treat the history of Christianity, with an unusually perspicacious reading of the fourth chapter of the Gospel of John, a fair measure of "shaggy god story" in which Anthony's hero strangely usurps the role of John the Baptist, and some not entirely faithful rehearsals from such visionary literature as Langland's Vision of Piers Plowman, Dante's Divine Comedy, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, and Milton's Paradise Lost. The book's hero is a liberal Christian with a strong streak of skepticism, and so this section of the book, as much as any, has him addressing his own religious preconceptions.
After all of that, I began to harbor doubts that there will be a satisfying development of the plot in the frame of Planet Tarot and its society. The Animation concept seems to be largely a device for Anthony to supply himself with a narrative sandbox for discussing social issues and history of religions. In a prefatory note, he writes, "this segment is unified around the social and religious theme," so perhaps the resolution of the main plot in the next book will supply the coherence that the first two have lacked.
This book definitely had a few high points. The alien sexual ethics of the Nath were cleverly developed, and I especially enjoyed the ritual ordeals under the Sphinx at Giza. The Christian material was about equal measures of hits and misses, but I'm not at all discouraged from moving on to the third and final volume.