In the canon
Grendel
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1971
- Pages
- Pages 180
"The old ram stands looking down over rockslides, stupidly triumphant." So begins the most feared monster in English, telling his own story at last, and he turns out to be funny, furious, lonely and far too clever for his cave. Gardner takes the beast who tears sleeping men apart in Beowulf and hands him the pen.
I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears.
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