Lavondyss - Robert Holdstock


Thought i'd continue in the "tradition" of the Gilmore Girls thread ...

I first heard of Joseph Campbell through a jacket comment on the book Lavondyss by Robert Holdstock. This fantasy book is a rather deep exploration of the origin of myth, the first storytellers, and a collective unconscious racial memory (for the race of mankind, I suppose, but Holdstock's fiction is steeped in British lore).

Now I haven't seen this Bill Moyers series yet thought it's in my Netflix queue. I wonder if other people have read Robert Holdstock's books (Mythago Wood deals with very similar themes) and whether they could comment on how closely his ideas match those of Campbell's.

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