I'm not altogether sure that C.S. Lewis is the proper comparison to Rowling. Yes there is a perfunctory similarity, and even upon more thoughtful analysis there are still some points of comparison, but, really, 'Little Lord Fauntleroy' (a good story marred by excessive favoritism) has as many. Indeed, Rowling's attitude toward Harry Potter is rather reminiscent of Burnett's toward Cedric Errol. A doting mother's rhapsody of her beloved child. Burnett did a rather better job of keeping the reader's sympathy through the whole production, but then she didn't try to stretch the story over 7 increasingly bloated volumes, either. And Fauntleroy was at least based upon a real child -- however unrecognizable once she finished running him through the fiction filter.
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Re: Good points!
Date: 2009-05-17 02:22 am (UTC)I'm not altogether sure that C.S. Lewis is the proper comparison to Rowling. Yes there is a perfunctory similarity, and even upon more thoughtful analysis there are still some points of comparison, but, really, 'Little Lord Fauntleroy' (a good story marred by excessive favoritism) has as many. Indeed, Rowling's attitude toward Harry Potter is rather reminiscent of Burnett's toward Cedric Errol. A doting mother's rhapsody of her beloved child. Burnett did a rather better job of keeping the reader's sympathy through the whole production, but then she didn't try to stretch the story over 7 increasingly bloated volumes, either. And Fauntleroy was at least based upon a real child -- however unrecognizable once she finished running him through the fiction filter.