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Cargando... The Great God Pan and The Hill of Dreams (edición 2006)por Arthur Machen (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Any lover of Lovecraft can clearly see the influence such stories as The Great God Pan by Welsh author Arthur Machen had on the style and content of Lovecraft's works, and for this reason it was an interesting read. However, the greater part of this book is taken up by the second story, The Hill of Dreams which, frankly, was tedious in the extreme with its long winded descriptions of rural Gwent, Victorian London and the inner wranglings of a boring protagonist. "The Great God Pan" is a classic horror tale, though pretty dated in its Victorian approach to sexuality. The Hill of Dreams is more interesting, an autobiographical tale of the dreams, frustrations and alienation of a sensitive young man and aspiring writer. Machen's introduction, where he details the sometimes frustrating process of creating the novel, is worth a read on its own. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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""Of creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few can hope to equal Arthur Machen.""--H. P. LovecraftArthur Machen (1863-1947), Welsh novelist and essayist, is considered one of the most important and influential writers of his time. While displaying a preoccupation with pagan themes and matters of the occult (an interest he shared with his close friend, the distinguished scholar A. E. Waite), his writing transcends the genre of supernatural horror. Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as Paul Bowles and Jorge Luis Borges are just a few of the literary notables who are counted among his admirers. Machen is also a key figure in the development of pulp magazine fiction (e.g, Weird Tales), a line of ancestry that leads directly to today's popular graphic novels. Further, Machen's name often crops up in the writings of theorists and practitioners of psychogeography, a school of thought and literature which explores the hidden links between the landscape and the mind. In The Great God Pan, Arthur Machen delivers a tense atmospheric story about a string of mysterious suicides. With its suggestive visions of decadent sexuality, the work scandalized Victorian London. Lyrical and introspective, The Hill of Dreams established Machen as one of the great prose masters of the language. As a penetrating portrayal of the accursed artist, redolent with soulful longing and genteel decay, it ranks as a landmark work in English literature. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The Hill of Dreams: 4.5 ( )