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Tehanu (1990)

af Ursula K. Le Guin

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Tenar, som lever alene på øen Gont, finder et forladt, mishandlet barn. Barnet har særlige evner og får en central rolle i kampen mellem godt og ondt, da en ny ærkekogler skal vælges.
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I liked the Earthsea trilogy well enough, but I always felt it was lacking a certain something, hence why I never picked up the later books. I should have known better.

'Tehanu' picks up years after Ged brings the restored crown and the former priestess Tenar to Havnor. After some study, she chose an ordinary life and raising a family. Her children are now grown and her husband has died. She is content, but events conspire to draw her in to larger stories. First she takes in and cares for a child disfigured by fire and abandoned by her abusive family. Second she is called to return to her old teacher who is dying, finally, Ged returns on the back of a dragon, irrevocabally changed.

This is a more mature book than the earlier Earthsea titles and reads best as it was written: after significant life experience. This was very enjoyable.

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  ManWithAnAgenda | Mar 24, 2024 |
Le Guin's Tehanu is completely different from the first three books in the Earthsea Cycle. It's about middle-aged, widowed Tenar and her life as an average woman in rural Gont. It feels more reflective and subversive to me than the first four books did.
  libwen | Feb 9, 2024 |
The very best ☺️ ( )
  amackera | Dec 28, 2023 |
When I finished my reread of The Farthest Shore, it was obvious to me that there needed to be a fourth Earthsea book to continue Tenar's story and pass it to a next generation and a new form of power, just as the third book had done for Ged. So it was no surprise to me when Le Guin claimed in her 2012 afterword to Tehanu that she had begun that work straight away after finishing The Farthest Shore. But it took her eighteen years to write, because it demanded more acquired perspective. In The Farthest Shore, the viewpoint passes to the young Arren immediately, and he carries it through the book, but in Tehanu, it is still Tenar who serves as the viewpoint character for the first thirteen chapters, and Le Guin needed more of her own "ordinary, unmagical life" (271) to explain Tenar's experiences to herself and the reader.

Publishers were no doubt happy with the incomplete work that could be sold as a "trilogy," and while Tehanu won the 1990 Nebula award for best novel, it has been frequently noted as a marked turn from the earlier Earthsea books, rather than their natural fulfillment, as it seemed to me in my recent reading. The diction was consistent with the earlier books, and it constantly returned to their themes and expressions. Perhaps a sticking point for some readers was the fact that it overtly addressed not only sex but the patent fact that sex had been sublimated in the earlier books.

An occultist magician will easily read these first four Earthsea tales as an elaboration of the formula of Tetragrammaton, expressed in Ged/yod, Tenar/heh, Lebannen/vau, and Tehanu/heh. The story of the Woman of Kemay (13-15) intimates the shin to be added to the formula. This nested tale brought my attention back to Michael Moorcock's recent Elric book The Citadel of Forgotten Myths, and its emphasis on an ancestry shared by humans (well, Elric's people) and dragons. It seems likely that Moorcock was influenced by Tehanu on this count, even if not consciously so.

I do feel a strong sense of completion in Tehanu, and I will pause before moving on to the short stories collected in Tales of Earthsea. The texts so far have given me confidence that Le Guin's later fantasies will continue to inquire gracefully into "who we are, and where our wholeness lies" (16).
2 stem paradoxosalpha | Dec 2, 2023 |
Would have been 5-star, but author had been 'got at' by gender-positive feminists ( )
1 stem mrsnickleby | Nov 11, 2023 |
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