- Taschenbuch: 192 Seiten
- Verlag: NYRB Classics (5. August 2008)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 159017271X
- ISBN-13: 978-1590172711
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,8 x 12,7 x 1,5 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.273.713 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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"Gautier was a leading writer of the Romantic movement and forms a bridge between the supernatural fiction of Goethe and E.T.A. Hoffmann and the pivotal pulp magazine Weird Tales."-Cynthia Ward
"Théophile Gautier was one of the most important writers of fantastic tales in France during the Romantic period."-The Modern Language Journal
"It is in Théophile Gautier that we first seem to find an authentic French sense of the unreal world, and here there appears a spectral mystery which, though not continuously
used, is recognizable at once as something alike genuine and profound." -H. P. Lovecraft
Gautier writes "...stories of remarkable artistry, rich in irony and nostalgia, in which the subtle play of passion with terror is expressed in a precise, elegant prose style." —The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror & the Supernatural
"Théophile Gautier was one of the most important writers of fantastic tales in France during the Romantic period."-The Modern Language Journal
"It is in Théophile Gautier that we first seem to find an authentic French sense of the unreal world, and here there appears a spectral mystery which, though not continuously
used, is recognizable at once as something alike genuine and profound." -H. P. Lovecraft
Gautier writes "...stories of remarkable artistry, rich in irony and nostalgia, in which the subtle play of passion with terror is expressed in a precise, elegant prose style." —The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror & the Supernatural
Kurzbeschreibung
Romantic provocateur, flamboyant bohemian, precocious novelist, perfect poet—not to mention an inexhaustible journalist, critic, and man-about-town—Théophile Gautier is one of the major figures, and great characters, of French literature.
In My Fantoms Richard Holmes, the celebrated biographer of Shelley and Coleridge, has found a brilliantly effective new way to bring this great bu too-little-known writer into English. My Fantoms assembles seven stories spanning the whole of Gautier’s career into a unified work that captures the essence of his adventurous life and subtle art. From the erotic awakening of “The Adolescent” through “The Poet,” a piercing recollection of the mad genius Gérard de Nerval, the great friend of Gautier’s youth, My Fantoms celebrates the senses and illuminates the strange disguises of the spirit, while taking readers on a tour of modernity at its most mysterious. ”What ever would the Devil find to do in Paris?” Gautier wonders. “He would meet people just as diabolical as he, and find himself taken for some naïve provincial…”
Tapestries, statues, and corpses come to life; young men dream their way into ruin; and Gautier keeps his faith in the power of imagination: “No one is truly dead, until they are no longer loved.”
In My Fantoms Richard Holmes, the celebrated biographer of Shelley and Coleridge, has found a brilliantly effective new way to bring this great bu too-little-known writer into English. My Fantoms assembles seven stories spanning the whole of Gautier’s career into a unified work that captures the essence of his adventurous life and subtle art. From the erotic awakening of “The Adolescent” through “The Poet,” a piercing recollection of the mad genius Gérard de Nerval, the great friend of Gautier’s youth, My Fantoms celebrates the senses and illuminates the strange disguises of the spirit, while taking readers on a tour of modernity at its most mysterious. ”What ever would the Devil find to do in Paris?” Gautier wonders. “He would meet people just as diabolical as he, and find himself taken for some naïve provincial…”
Tapestries, statues, and corpses come to life; young men dream their way into ruin; and Gautier keeps his faith in the power of imagination: “No one is truly dead, until they are no longer loved.”
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Gautier's Demons
5. August 2008
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The New York Review of Books publishers continue their great series of classics revivals with My Fantoms by Theophile Gautier. The short stories were published in France from 1832 to 1867 and are wonderfully introduced, translated, and updated by Richard Holmes. The stories involve the undead and unholy manipulating and interfering with the lives of adolescents, painters, clergy, journalists, actors, tourists, and poets.
Gautier's style is romantic, humorous, and ironic and quickly involves the reader in the fantasies of the characters. These fantasies often occur in dreams that lead to temporary or permanent madness. They are worth the stress, though, because of the sexual ecstasy and obsessive love that often result.
There is a fundamental tension in each story between the characters' rational work and irrational experiences. Holmes points out in the Introduction that the tension is somewhat autobiographical. Gautier was a hard working journalist who wrote a weekly column for a Paris publication for thirty years and also was a free spirited author of many works of fiction. My Fantoms' cover art represents the two beautiful Italian sisters Gautier loved: one was an opera singer who lived with him and shared his day to day routines, and the other was a dancer who traveled internationally frequently sending him love letters.
Holmes writes in the Postscript that the seven stories are strange and mysterious implying they are somewhat difficult to interpret from a rational point of view. But, in the following passage from the story "The Painter," Gautier shows the reader how to understand the characters' experiences in all the stories. "...he was capable of becoming one of the greatest of our artists; but instead he only became one of the strangest of our madmen. He had questioned his own existence too closely and too curiously; almost invariably he injected everyday events with some grotesque element of his own fantasy."
You can enter the realm of madness in a number of dimensions as you read the great collection of stories written by a master of the rational/irrational. Gautier will show you that the demons most threatening to sanity are the desires that dwell within our minds.
Gautier's style is romantic, humorous, and ironic and quickly involves the reader in the fantasies of the characters. These fantasies often occur in dreams that lead to temporary or permanent madness. They are worth the stress, though, because of the sexual ecstasy and obsessive love that often result.
There is a fundamental tension in each story between the characters' rational work and irrational experiences. Holmes points out in the Introduction that the tension is somewhat autobiographical. Gautier was a hard working journalist who wrote a weekly column for a Paris publication for thirty years and also was a free spirited author of many works of fiction. My Fantoms' cover art represents the two beautiful Italian sisters Gautier loved: one was an opera singer who lived with him and shared his day to day routines, and the other was a dancer who traveled internationally frequently sending him love letters.
Holmes writes in the Postscript that the seven stories are strange and mysterious implying they are somewhat difficult to interpret from a rational point of view. But, in the following passage from the story "The Painter," Gautier shows the reader how to understand the characters' experiences in all the stories. "...he was capable of becoming one of the greatest of our artists; but instead he only became one of the strangest of our madmen. He had questioned his own existence too closely and too curiously; almost invariably he injected everyday events with some grotesque element of his own fantasy."
You can enter the realm of madness in a number of dimensions as you read the great collection of stories written by a master of the rational/irrational. Gautier will show you that the demons most threatening to sanity are the desires that dwell within our minds.
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Editorial decision somewhat hurt this volume
12. Dezember 2011
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Richard Holmes clearly loves Gautier, and is doing his best to introduce these long-neglected works to a contemporary audience. And I enjoy the collection. But...
First of all, there is, in neither English nor French, such as word as "fantom." I wish Holmes would either use the French word "fantôme" or the standard English "phantom." The fake word is used throughout the translation, and it is really grating. Secondly, the stories have all been retitled on the basis of the stage of life, profession, or hobby of main character of each ("The Adolescent" "The Priest" "The Opium Smoker" etc), which gives the impression that Gautier himself created a work that is a tour of "fantoms" (ugh) haunting people in various aspects of society. He did no such thing. In some ways, this reminds me of the translations of the 18th and 19th century, which were more concerned with capturing whatever the translator thought was the essence of the work, rather than what was literally there. Holmes is not that free, but still...
Acknowledging all of these issues, I still recommend this collection. Gautier is a wonderful writer, as far as I can tell more appreciated in English-speaking countries than in France, where he seems to be considered a fairly shallow writer who just happened to be aligned with/an inspiration to almost all the major authors of his day--so much for French criticism. And in English-language countries, he's almost entirely known these days for Mademoiselle de Maupin--and only for its famous Preface, at that! These are superb stories in the Hoffmann style, and maybe superior to them in terms of penetrating social analysis (though Hoffmann is so wonderful, it's hard for me to see him as secondary to anyone). The story here called "The Priest" is maybe the most powerful illustration of theological duelism I've ever read. The story here called "The Aritst" is silly, scary, and emotionally devastating by terms.
I can't recommend these stories enough, and one can tell Richard Holmes' work is a labor of love.
First of all, there is, in neither English nor French, such as word as "fantom." I wish Holmes would either use the French word "fantôme" or the standard English "phantom." The fake word is used throughout the translation, and it is really grating. Secondly, the stories have all been retitled on the basis of the stage of life, profession, or hobby of main character of each ("The Adolescent" "The Priest" "The Opium Smoker" etc), which gives the impression that Gautier himself created a work that is a tour of "fantoms" (ugh) haunting people in various aspects of society. He did no such thing. In some ways, this reminds me of the translations of the 18th and 19th century, which were more concerned with capturing whatever the translator thought was the essence of the work, rather than what was literally there. Holmes is not that free, but still...
Acknowledging all of these issues, I still recommend this collection. Gautier is a wonderful writer, as far as I can tell more appreciated in English-speaking countries than in France, where he seems to be considered a fairly shallow writer who just happened to be aligned with/an inspiration to almost all the major authors of his day--so much for French criticism. And in English-language countries, he's almost entirely known these days for Mademoiselle de Maupin--and only for its famous Preface, at that! These are superb stories in the Hoffmann style, and maybe superior to them in terms of penetrating social analysis (though Hoffmann is so wonderful, it's hard for me to see him as secondary to anyone). The story here called "The Priest" is maybe the most powerful illustration of theological duelism I've ever read. The story here called "The Aritst" is silly, scary, and emotionally devastating by terms.
I can't recommend these stories enough, and one can tell Richard Holmes' work is a labor of love.
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