Rowling in her 2007 short story “The Tale of Three Brothers.” Some literary types have worked Death, as a character, into their fiction, such as Ingmar Bergman in his 1957 film The Seventh Seal and J.K. It’s called ‘living.’ Pour the lad a glass of spirits and put that damn pencil away.” In the interest of knowledge, a wizard hurries up to interview him about what happened, only to be pulled away by Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully. Teatime - a very bad man, warped and bloodless (although he’s shed a great deal of other people’s blood) - pops up, stunned and speechless, in the midst of the wizards at the Unseen University. Near the end of his 1996 novel Hogfather, Mr. Terry Pratchett was someone in love with humanity, recognizing the human tendency to heroism and compassion as well as greed and cruelty.įor all his goofiness and childishness on his Discworld pages, he’s never not serious. He’s the impish, slightly knowing guide, leading his readers on journeys into the heart of a strange, strange place - humanity. He plays with language, he plays with characters, he plays with descriptions, he plays with footnotes, and he plays with the reader.
His 41 Discworld fantasy novels are the height of playfulness. Terry Pratchett - who died in 2015 at the age of 66 from Alzheimer’s - played for keeps.
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