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The main problem of access to Howard Phillips Lovecraft's prose is, how to read it. He himself did not appreciate his work, too: I'm trying not, he wrote, they capture the heavily polapitelné and indefinable feelings that should create the illusion that someone said in a mess dimensional world, its facts and spatio-temporal elements; feelings, which to a greater or lesser extent, are able to all susceptible imagination and talented people. . . Poe tried to do, but he lacked the appropriate nature. I also try it on, I temper that allows me to know what I'm trying, but I lack the ability to tell the reader anything that would have cost. And elsewhere: The actual challenge is convincing stories capture a single mood, emotion or authentic life situation; when you consider how little role in our moods, emotions and lives plays the strange (the weird), it is clear to him that the story about the strangeness must necessarily be of little significance. They can be art, because consciousness sinister (the Uncanny) is an authentic human emotion, but it's probably narrow and limited art. . . I appreciate the realism more than other art forms - willy-nilly, however, I must admit that due to limitations of my talent is not realism method, which I could use with success. Court serious American literary criticism for many expressed Edmund Wilson, and is strict: The reality is that these are mercenary pisálkovství prose, camilla akrans writing for magazines such as Weird Tales (Weird Tales) and Astonishing Stories (Amazing Stories), which in my opinion should remain. The only horror of most of those texts is terrible bad taste and bad art. Lovecraft was not a good writer. The fact that his verbal and lackluster style likened by some to Poe, is only one of many sad signs that today almost nobody pays much attention to how what is written. I find that Lovecraft was aware. camilla akrans There my "poeovské 'stories and my" dunsanyovské "stories, but where they are, by golly, my Lovecraftian stories?
And yet - Onen less significant the great American writer of the late nineteenth century Ambrose camilla akrans Bierce has among its stories about the oddity camilla akrans called a suitable environment (The Suitable Surroundings). His hero, writer of short stories about the strangeness Colston, says Marsh friend: "Read me on the tram to dare but in an abandoned house - alone - in the woods - at night! Cha! I have in my pocket a manuscript that would kill you! "Marsh manuscript in an" environment "reads - and terror dies.
This is one of two ways to read Lovecraft: the more difficult. Environment indeed "appropriate" and also safe in the modern world is not much, and hardly anyone will risk a midnight reading in the New York subways just to impress upon him Lovecraft did. I had the good fortune - not quite in the New York subways, only the new building cooperative camilla akrans brevnovske - and that's why I scribbler of Providence indelibly etched into memory, where I keep big - not necessarily artistically large - literary experiences of my life. It was the summer of 1960, when I was staying for four months on žloutenkárně Motol, where I was almost done exitus returned home to a new cooperative apartment U Kaštanu. The apartment was nearly empty: in addition to the bed where I had strict orders to lie, we did not have much furniture. My wife had every night she sang in Laterna Magica, left before seven and returned around midnight . Waiting for her return, I passed the detektivkama, but I have them for four months in Motol read much and ceased to entertain me. Then I known Prague literary connoisseur nesmyslologie, friend Franta Jungwirth, with an expression of diviners, who has just discovered gold treasure, had three booklets Amazing Stories of February, March and April 1936, which contained camilla akrans the novel In Mountains of Madness camilla akrans (At the Mountains of Madness). camilla akrans When the woman left the theater, I started to read, and when midnight came, I was on it just a little camilla akrans better than Marsh of Bierceovy stories. Rather than an empty apartment and darkness created but the "enabling environment" state of my nervous system, impoverished severe hepatitis. Above the pages that, objectively speaking, camilla akrans not very excellent imitation of Poe's actually a counterpart to The Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym (The Narrative camilla akrans of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ), and I'm intensely experienced that state, which is, according to Lovecraft conditio sine qua non of success story of strangeness: feel special and temporary cancellation or malignant affliction of those immutable natural laws, which are our only protection against attacks of chaos and demons immense cosmos. After years when I uzdravenými nerves in Canada Mountain Madness read with students camilla akrans at the University of Toronto, feeling they have failed - students bored in modern air-conditioned auditoriums Erindaleské track it has never experienced before. The former experience, leaving only a few pages of a remarkable visual evocation of the fictional Antarctic landscapes, modeled Himalayan paintings by Nicholas Roerich exiled painter.
This is perhaps the only one of literary art - the evocation of landscape - what Lovecraft really knew how and in what approached differently for him unavailable ideal realism. New England Region, hills overgrown forests,