In A Glass Darkly
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Джозеф Шеридан Ле Фаню – выдающийся писатель Викторианской эпохи, в которую его нередко именовали «ирландским Уилки Коллинзом» и «ирландским Эдгаром По», автор множества готических рассказов, повестей и романов, переживших на рубеже XIX–XX веков временное забвение, а затем повторно завоевавших популярность – уже у новых поколений читателей. На страницах сборника «В тусклом стекле» (1872), ставшего последней прижизненно опубликованной книгой Ле Фаню, соседствуют истории о потустороннем возмездии за давний грех – и рассказ о навязчивом наваждении, сводящем с ума добропорядочного обывателя, романтический сюжет о пылкой любви и о таинственной комнате – и легенда о вампире-соблазнителе, на четверть века опередившая «Дракулу» Брэма Стокера. Об этих необыкновенных происшествиях, в которых просматривается явное или скрытое влияние сверхъестественных сил, повествует секретарь доктора Мартина Хесселиуса – врача-психиатра и одного из первых в истории литературы «оккультных детективов»…
Книга на английском языке.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was one of the great masters of Victorian of mystery and horror fiction, and can be regarded as the father of the modern ghost story. In a Glass Darkly (1872), one of his most celebrated volumes, purports to be the casebook of Dr Hesselius, a pioneer psychologist.
These five tales represent some of Le Fanu's most accomplished work, which rises above the staid conventions of the age. Although drawing on Gothic conventions - the book features both ghosts and vampires - Le Fanu redefined the parameters of supernatural fiction. He had little interest in the crude depiction of other worldly phenomena in order to provide the reader with a pleasurable frisson of fear. Le Fanu concern rather lay in the examination of the results of supernatural experience on the psyche of his protagonist, in this he paved the way for the work of Henry James and M. R. James.
This volume is an indispensable cornerstone of modern horror and remains one of the finest collections of unsettling fiction in the language.
Книга на английском языке.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was one of the great masters of Victorian of mystery and horror fiction, and can be regarded as the father of the modern ghost story. In a Glass Darkly (1872), one of his most celebrated volumes, purports to be the casebook of Dr Hesselius, a pioneer psychologist.
These five tales represent some of Le Fanu's most accomplished work, which rises above the staid conventions of the age. Although drawing on Gothic conventions - the book features both ghosts and vampires - Le Fanu redefined the parameters of supernatural fiction. He had little interest in the crude depiction of other worldly phenomena in order to provide the reader with a pleasurable frisson of fear. Le Fanu concern rather lay in the examination of the results of supernatural experience on the psyche of his protagonist, in this he paved the way for the work of Henry James and M. R. James.
This volume is an indispensable cornerstone of modern horror and remains one of the finest collections of unsettling fiction in the language.