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Sto caricando le informazioni... To Quebec and the Stars (1976)di H. P. Lovecraft
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In researching his biography, Lovecraft, L. Sprague de Camp unearthed and read a number of non-fiction writings by the late horror writer, Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Some of these had been published in Rhode Island newspapers as early as 1906 when Lovecraft was still in high school.Editor de Camp has divided To Quebec and the Stars into four sections: Science, Philosophy, Literature and Esthetics, and Travel, Description, and History. Much of the material included is of substantial value to Lovecraftians and is most revealing of this strange and unfathomable writer of horror tales.Included is Description of the Town of Quebeck, the longest thing that Lovecraft ever wrote. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Lovecraft's aesthetic views were conservative; his political ones reactionary, and most modern readers will find much to disagree with here. It's worth noting though that said views were not set in stone, indeed seems to have been rather labile in specific content: in 1915 he could complain about it being unnatural that the Great War put the great "Teutonic" powers of Britain and Germany on opposite sides; just two years later he could equate modern Germany with Roman era barbarians while aligning Anglo-American culture with the civilized Roman heritage. I do agree with him in disliking free verse.
De Camp's editing is rather indifferent, the introductory pieces he supplied are of limited interest, and there's a sprinkling of typos that, for lack of [sic]'s, has to be presumed not Lovecraft's. Where there is a typo in the original, de Camp's attempts at clarification can be weak, for example, Lovecraft's text as originally published in an amateur magazine in one place reads "noxus homo" - de Camp notes that this is a typographical error and says that the original is uncertain; context clearly calls for "novus homo".
Not a book to be recommended to those unfamiliar with, or unappreciative of, Lovecraft's fiction, but for those who do like his work it may be well worth while to provide a bit of background as to where he was coming from. And the historical part of "Quebeck" is just plain good reading.