@NapoleonWilson I always imagined Yennefer as a striking 40-year-old. Striking in two senses: beautiful, and not to be messed with. Looking like a girl in one's late 20s is one thing, but she wouldn't want people taking her for someone young and inexperienced. Not looking 70, for sure, but old enough to be respected and mature at least.
(I haven't seen the TV thing, so can't comment on her casting there.)
@Randal'Thor Yes, that is my impression too. That the age I imagined her as is largely based on her experienced and awe-inspiring presence.
But that is the inherent paradox of the mages in general, that they're old (and either experienced, or bitter, or just senile) people trapped in young bodies.
In general, the TV show didn't quite transport that the story it told was comprised of flashbacks over a few decades. It sprinkled a few hints in, but I'm sure it left a few people confused who aren't too acquainted with the material.
But that's the same with the 20 year gap between two consecutive scenes in The Fellowship of the Ring.
@Randal'Thor If censorship means the banning of entire books, it's definitely a subset of reception. Censoring individual passages ... also, I suppose.
I'm trying to locate the source of a story I remember, for an essay I'm writing. Not sure if the story is fact, fiction, or legend. It concerns an apprentice to a master storyteller in Japan (Rakugo I think). The master makes the apprentice practice the same bit of the same story over and over, n...
So apparently I forgot this in October, due to too much other stuff going on on Stack Exchange.
Here's the latest installment in what's now becoming a grand old tradition of gathering some particularly good Literature Q&A in order to get some easily available links to show off to people.
Since ...
Here's the latest installment in what's now becoming a grand old tradition of gathering some particularly good Literature Q&A in order to get some easily available links to show off to people.
Since Literature has a community-run Twitter account, one use for this post will be to gather links for...
The Wikipedia article about the Iliad says that this work was first printed in Florence in 1488/89.
The Wikipedia article about the Odyssey does not mention when this epic was first printed,
but it appears to have been part of the same "editio princeps" as the Iliad: Homerus / Τὰ σωζόμενα (Onassi...