Campbell’s sometimes quaint, sometimes uncomfortable musings on his daily travels across East Asia is definitely for fans: it lacks any substantive looks at his own life or the mythological thinking he will develop later. But great for some formative insights!
Fascinating and sometimes beautifully written fictional mythology to little narrative purpose or storytelling. More similar to sketches for a larger idea that was never attempted. Why read them but for curiosity?
Every story of love, treachery, aimlessness, abuse, or job security is drawn against a haunted national background, of traditions tested, of a horror at the palace.
Lutes’s graphic novel demonstrates the breadth of the genre, offering a thick ground-level set of stories to the title city’s people just prior to Hitler’s rise to power. Refreshing and compelling.
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