In the new novel by ‘The Magicians’ author, Britain is leaderless. And the only ones left to carry on are a handful of knights – the ‘dregs of the Round Table’ – and a sorce…
Lev Grossman, author of “The Magicians” trilogy, returns with a new novel, “The Bright Sword.” Geoffrey of Monmouth’s “Historia Regum Britanniae,
In “The Bright Sword,” Collum, an orphaned teenager whose dream is to be one of Arthur’s knights, arrives at Camelot only to discover that the king was mortally wounded at Camlann. Britain is without a leader. And the only ones left to carry on are a handful of knights – the “dregs of the Round Table” – and the sorceress Nimue.
When it comes to “The Magicians” books, you can well imagine that I made it all up, and it wasn’t really a problem. But in the case of Arthur, everything has to have some kind of historical grounding. And that means a lot of reading. And then, once you’ve done the reading, the impulse is to put it all in the book – which actually turns out to be a mistake because there’s too much. Maybe there’ll be one perfect detail in there – but then you have to leave the rest of it out.
At first, I thought, ‘It’s not going to work, because: A) There’s no Arthur; and B) So many of the heroes are dead at that point.’ But then I began to realize what an opportunity it was, to bring in other people who are usually left in the margins, place them center stage, tell their stories and make them main characters. Non-white people, trans people, neurodivergent people – even after thousands of years, there were still more stories to tell.
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