LeGuin on fantasy

[Amy Z]

> --- In HPforGrownups at y...> Amy Z wrote, and quotes LeGuin:
> > 
> > >    In many fantasy tales of the nineteenth and twentieth 
> centuries 
> > the 
> > > tension between good and evil, light and dark, is drawn 
> absolutely 
> > > clearly, as a battle, the good guys on one side and the bad 
guys 
> on 
> > > the other, cops and robbers, Christians and heathens, heroes 
and 
> > > villains. 

Caius and Rita then both directed us to authors they think deviate 
from this sad pattern (Chesterton and Macdonald, respectively).  
Thanks for the recommendations, and I hasten to point out that my 
beloved UKLeG does say "many fantasy tales," not "all" or even "most."

Amy Z
who just keeps getting so many great book suggestions from this list!