Is Fire and Ice a masterpiece? What's the difference with Hugo and Marxby?
Fire and Ice can be regarded as an excellent fantasy novel and a fantastic masterpiece, but its literary value is very limited. At this stage, if Harry Potter is regarded as a fantasy novel, its literary value will definitely rank first, because it has entered the national classic series in Britain and is associated with Hamlet, A Tale of Two Cities, Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. Rowling herself has won many Nobel Prize in Literature-level master awards, such as the Prince asturias Prize for Harmonious Culture, and the people in it are all super cows. In Andersen's literature prize, there is a Booker king like Rahdi, and the worst is Haruki Murakami; Allen Literature Service Award has been won by Tony Morrison (Nobel Prize), john updike, philip roth, Thomas Pynchon, British masters Tom stopa and Lahdi (and Martin, not to mention the serious master award, even the lowest prize beyond fantasy, the gap is not too big). However, it should be noted that Harry Potter is regarded as a fairy tale satire novel by writers and scholars, which belongs to Dickens' value system, and it was not selected as a national masterpiece because of its fantasy (Rowling certainly didn't win the asturias Prize or the Andersen Prize for Literature for her fantasy). Another so-called fantasy novel with more Gao Wenxue value is Dark Matter Trilogy, but its author Pullman publicly denies that his works are fantasy or science fiction. In a word, neither Rowling nor Pullman likes fantasy novel's writers, but they are drawn in by us. Tolkien, Martin, neil gaiman, Ursula Legon and others are truly conscious fantasy writers who are interested in fantasy creation. In this case, it is different from what all of us think. Ordinary readers must think that Tolkien is the first Martin and the second Martin, but it is not. According to the literary status, ursula is the first, Tolkien and neil gaiman are temporarily equal, and Martin is at the bottom. So, Martin, not to mention Bimarquez, even neil gaiman can beat him to the ground. Finally, a classic BBC bibliography invited 108 professors of literature and linguistics from 35 countries to select "100 great fictional masterpieces that shaped human spirit and changed history". The list is serious as a whole. Harry Potter ranks 15 (No.9 in One Hundred Years of Solitude) and ranks 65438 among the works of living writers. Ursula Leghorn's The Left Hand of Darkness ranked 73rd. Others, whether fantasy Tolkien or science fiction Asimov and Clark, are not on the list, let alone Martin. In this list, only one sci-fi work, The Left Hand of Darkness, was on the list in the 20th and 20th centuries (and ranked lower). Rowling, who is wrongly "discriminated" by us (thinking that she is inferior to Tolkien or even Martin), is actually different from Tolkien and Martin. She is a hidden Dickens; And among those who go the same way as Tolkien or Clark (science fiction), Ursula has the highest literary attainments, followed by Tolkien or neil gaiman. This result may be different from what ordinary readers think. Ordinary readers probably equate fantasy or science fiction attainments with literary attainments. Summary of the last sentence: on the feelings of fantasy readers, Martin may be very awesome; Don't think too much about Ma Pang's literary attainments. The first place is Grandma ursula, and the second place is Grandpa Tolkien (excluding Rowling and Pullman, who is more literate). Among the living fantasy writers, neil gaiman has a fairy tale "Ghost Mom", ranking first. It is a great victory that Martin's literary position can approach neil gaiman.