Wow.
This is a slow slog, more of a literary thesis turned into a novel than the muscular prose of an Eternal Champion book. Luckily, I have an MA in English and have been trained to read ANY book without feeling pain.
It is an interesting exercise of Moorcock trying to stitch the Eternal Champion into Walden and The Last Mohican. It is more an exploration of western literary tropes about indigenous North Americans than anything to do with real indigenous people.
Bit of a lost opportunity. Just imagine if Moorcock had gotten Eden Robinson to write about a Pacific Northwest indigenous champion, or Marlon James to create an African / Caribbean one.
The mind boggles.
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