![]() ![]() ![]() The memory of this event is obscured, as are the memories of much else, by a mist that hangs over the land-a mist that is actually the breath of the dragon Querig, enchanted by Merlin intentionally to repress memory. And yet it is revealed at the end of the book that there is something that haunts even their love. Some of the scenes showing their concern for each other are quite moving. The quest is that of Axl and Beatrice, the central characters, to reach the village of their son the great love is that between the inseparable and devoted couple. The Buried Giant also involves a quest and a great love, but both of these are different from the quests and courtly love affairs of medieval Arthurian romance. Arthur’s establishing peace between Britons and Saxons is a key plot element, as is a rather impressive spell cast in the recent past by Merlin, who does not appear in the novel. Among the characters are an errant Gawain, who remains alive after Arthur’s passing, and a farmer named Axl, who was once a member of Arthur’s retinue, a fact that comes to light only gradually and piecemeal-which is the way the characters and the readers learn much of what is important in the novel. ![]() Though set shortly after Arthur’s death, Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant is rightly considered an Arthurian novel. ![]()
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