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L'abbazia degli incubi (1818)

di Thomas Love Peacock

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Nightmare Abbey is a satirical novel, poking fun at the morbid obsessions of romantic literature. Peacock also took the opportunity to caricature and pillory actual historical figures. It centers around the melancholy gentleman and his son who inhabit Nightmare Abbey, their array of guests, and their depressing servants.

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a satire of romantic, melancholic literature with silly names ( )
  Kristelh | Oct 22, 2023 |
The short, satirical novels of Thomas Love Peacock are unlike any other genre. They are often recognized as "novels", but they also have characteristics of drama or colloquia. They do not have a plot, but consist of pleasant and often humorous conversations. In these short novels, Peacock satirized his contemporaries and issues of his day. Despite the fact that most of the satire is lost on the average twenty-first century reader, they are still very readable, and might even provoke an occasional smile, but from what I understand they may have provoked bulderous laughter in their own day.

Nightmare Abbey (1818) is the most famous of Peacock's short novels. Thomas Love Peacock was a contemporary and friend of most of the Romantic poets and their circle. In Nightmare Abbey some of these poets appear in disguise, Percy Bysshe Shelley as “Scythrop Glowry,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge as “Mr Ferdinando Flosky” and, Lord Byron in as “Mr Cypress” but I must admit that I did not recognize them as such. According to the introduction, Shelley is reported to have said that his house was instantly recognisable in the story, but I suppose it would require a great deal of biographical information to see through that. In fact, Raymond Wright writes that (at least in 1986, i.e. when the introduction was written) many of the side characters in Peacock's novels had not yet been identified.

However, as I said before, all that literary criticism can be left for what it is, and these short novels can be enjoyed in their own right, with an occasional chuckle. ( )
  edwinbcn | Apr 14, 2022 |
Another great comedy and social satire. I previously read Crotchett Castle by the same author which is also really good. The characters in this arn't as various as those in Crotchett, this one is all about Goth. And i mean that in the modern sense, most of the characters really like being depressed, and you have people like Mr. Toobad and Mr. Listless.
Its very well written and has great back and forth conversations. It also didn't have as many words i had to look up as Crotchett Castle. I was so into it and it flows so nice that i nearly finished it in a single day, its good stuff. ( )
  wreade1872 | Nov 28, 2021 |
> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Peacock-Labbaye-du-cauchemar/97809

> Dans son oeuvre la plus connue, L'Abbaye de Cauchemar (Nightmare Abbey, 1818), il raille la mélancolie romantique en campant les personnages de Scythrop (inspiré par Shelley), Mr. Flosky (par Coleridge) et Mr. Cypress (par Byron). Un beau moment de belle écriture et d'histoires touchantes.
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  Joop-le-philosophe | Feb 20, 2021 |
An early 19th century English fiction of manners. I found the love life of Scythrop to be both hilarious and unbelievable. This book was also a criticism of other authors of the day, which I'm sure went straight over my head! This book reminded me of a string of paper clips, all clipped together, it wasn't cohesive. I stuck with it since if was only 122 pages. I would rate this a 2.5, but since I know I didn't understand it and didn't bother to look up all the satire about the other authors, I'm going to rate it a 3. ( )
  Tess_W | Dec 9, 2020 |
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Nome dell'autoreRuoloTipo di autoreOpera?Stato
Thomas Love Peacockautore primariotutte le edizionicalcolato
Barbolini RobertoIntroduzioneautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Barbolini RobertoPrefazioneautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Bertolucci, AttilioTraduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Butler, MarilynIntroduzioneautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Forster, PeterIllustratoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Millar, H. R.Illustratoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Vargo, LisaA cura diautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Wilson, EdmundPrefazioneautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
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There's a dark lantern of the spirit,
Which none see by but those who bear it,
That makes them in the dark see visions
And hag themselves with apparitions,
Find racks for their own minds, and vaunt
Of their own misery and want.

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MATTHEW. Oh! it's your only fine humour, sir. Your true melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit, sir. I am melancholy myself, divers times, sir: and and then I do no more but take pen and paper presently, and overflow you half a score or a dozen of sonnets at a sitting.

STEPHEN. Truly,sir, and I love such things out of measure.

MATTHEW. Why, I pray you, sir, make use of my study: it's at your service.

STEPHEN. I thank you, sir, I shall be bold, I warrant you. Have you a stool there, to be melancholy upon!

BEN JONSON, Every Man in his Humour, Act 3, Sc 1
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Nightmare Abbey, a venerable family-mansion, in a highly picturesque state of semi-dilapidation, pleasantly situated on a strip of dry land between the sea and the fens, at the verge of the county of Lincoln, had the honour to be the seat of Christopher Glowry, Esquire.
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When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him; and he was sent home like a well-threshed ear of corn, with nothing in his head: having finished his education to the high satisfaction of the master and fellows of his college,...
He had some taste for romance reading before he went to the university, where, we must confess, in justice to his college, he was cured of the love of reading in all its shapes; and the cure would have been radical, if disappointment in love, and total solitude, had not conspired to bring on a relapse.
The tower which Scythrop inhabited stood at the south-eastern angle of the Abbey; and, on the southern side, the foot of the tower opened on a terrace, which was called the garden, though nothing grew on it but ivy, and a few amphibious weeds. The south-western tower, which was ruinous and full of owls, might, with equal propriety, have been called the aviary.
MR FLOSKY: Very true, sir. Modern literature is a north-east wind--a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it so. The way to produce fine fruit is to blight the flower. You call this a paradox. Marry, so be it. Ponder thereon.
Raven: The Honourable Mr Listless is gone. He declared that, what with family quarrels in the morning, and ghosts at night, he could get neither sleep nor peace; and that the agitation was too much for his nerves: though Mr Glowry assured him that the ghost was only poor Crow walking in his sleep, and that the shroud and bloody turban were a sheet and a red nightcap.
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Nightmare Abbey is a satirical novel, poking fun at the morbid obsessions of romantic literature. Peacock also took the opportunity to caricature and pillory actual historical figures. It centers around the melancholy gentleman and his son who inhabit Nightmare Abbey, their array of guests, and their depressing servants.

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