Magister ludi the glass bead game5/11/2023 This is a ruthless patriarchy where dissidents are summarily disappeared and women are relegated to the domestic sphere of “Home, Husband and Happiness”, a neatly sardonic riff on National Socialism’s Kinder, Küche, Kirche. That web of cultural connections, at once an exquisite structure and a means of entrapment, forms a recurrent motif in Bridget Collins’s ingenious, yet strangely empty and overblown, second fantasy novel for adults.Ĭonflicted and outsiderly, Collins’s protagonists struggle in the net of a dystopian one-party state. Hesitating, he reluctantly breaks through, feeling the “infinitesimal cling of threads on his face”. W hen student Léo Martin first approaches Montverre, an exclusive seat of learning high in the mountains, his path is blocked by a “cobweb.
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