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What's the Blood Meridian of fantasy?

That one novel that transcends beyond the normal genre trappings to become a masterpiece.

>> No.4983573

>>4983571
The Odyssey

>> No.4983574

what is the something of something
what is the something of something
what is the something of something

>> No.4983595

>>4983574
It's the mantra of a man unwilling to take a risk without relating it to the familiar.

>> No.4983603

>>4983571
You asked this question like a week ago too. I'm still waiting for a good answer.

>> No.4983617

Gormenghast

>> No.4983852

>>4983571
The Book of the New Sun

>> No.4983873

>>4983571

Little, Big

>> No.4983879

>>4983873
probably, since bloom loves that too

>> No.4983882

>>4983852
This, and only this.

Although I guess one could argue it's sci-fi and not fantasy..

>> No.4983897

>>4983852
>>4983882
Book of the New Sun certainly has good prose and matches Blood Meridian in tone and ambiguity, but Book of the New Sun is a lot more ornamented and indulgent compared to Blood Meridian's straightforward and economic prose.

They're not perfect matches, but they're close.

>> No.4983903

>>4983882
Its a fantasy story happening in a sci fi universe. I would say that say the same about Dune, or something like that.

>> No.4984452

>>4983571
bridge to terabithia

>> No.4985040

The dark tower series

>> No.4985209

>>4984452
>>4985040
le epin maymay, u sure #rekt him hard

>> No.4985218

>>4983571

Gormenghast.

>> No.4985383

a hundred years of solitude

and/or

tormance (forgotten its real name)

>> No.4985388

>>4985383
arcturian voyage (that's it)

>> No.4985606

>>4983571
>What's the Blood Meridian of fantasy?
A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE Listen you, I mean you, the one who just scrolled over this and highlighted the spoiler, I want you to take a minute to hear me out about this, I really mean this too. You're in a thread about the Fantasy genre right? You see that they are looking for the grim hard realities of Blood Meridian's brutality and all that, but no one has the guts to admit the truth, A song of Ice and Fire is the best "gritty" "realistic" Fantasy series out there because Deep&Edgy samefagged a lot of threads crying about how he hates anything that wasn't on his literature syllabus as he was coming up in grad school so he can make sense of his job at walgreen's. You don't have to be like that. You don't have to be ignorant to the truth. The real truth: Fantasy is a played out genre and you only got into it because of Lord of the Rings or video games.

>> No.4985622

>>4985606
Honestly, The Black Company beats aSoiaF on this front.

>> No.4985836

>>4983897
It's not straightforward nor economic when McCarthy (uber-narrator) speaks, nor when the Judge has his passages.