Together they will throw parliament and the country into chaos with their rivalries, successes and failures, agreements and disagreements, and all other kinds of antics. Then, his soon to be apprentice, Jonathan Strange – a restless, equally irrational but slightly more amiable magician. Enter first Mr Norrell, a grumpy, jealous irrational man who hoards books like a dragon does treasure, and is determined to bring magic back to respectable English society… at some point, after he’s finished reading this book.
It is all but lost, having deteriorated since the time of the mystical Raven King, who once ruled over the north of England, and all magicians are merely respectable theoretical magicians, who wouldn’t possibly attempt to do any magic themselves. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell imagines an 18 th century England in which magic exists, but as something people did once, long ago, like pagan rituals and mammoth-hunting. Her novel feels unduly classical and nostalgic and yet timeless at the very same time and it has, at the heart of it, that thing which every truly great novel needs: a brilliant story. All of the mythology of the world and the magic and the kind of costume drama elements were always secondary to the realism of it, and we only used them to make it feel like it could be a real story if you just take the leap of faith that maybe magic existed once upon a time.With all of the whimsy, spark and imagination of Harry Potter and the dry, well-observed wit of Neil Gaiman, Susanna Clark perfectly conveys all that can be brilliant about British literature and manages to be refreshingly different from either. Harness: Fantasy is very alienating if you don’t do it right. I used all of that background material, which we don’t necessarily go into in a lot of detail it just helps to make it more real.ĭid you have concerns that people who haven’t read the book would be turned off by the material? Some of the kind of nonsense stories that Lady Pole tells come from footnotes, and the auction scene at the end of episode two is a footnote. I just treated it as opportunities for world building. How much of that material made it into the show? The book has hundreds of footnotes giving ancillary information about the story. See more TV Shows That Failed to Survive the 2014-15 Season
Who knows how much she’s written or what she’s written or whether she’ll ever publish, but if she ever does, you bet your ass we’ll be there. I do believe there is more material in her mind.
There is an unseen bond between us and the material and between us and Susanna, who is the most incredible, imaginative author - and yet reclusive and fascinating and interesting.
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