- Paperback: 323 pages
- Publisher: Harmattan (1996)
- Language: French
- ISBN-10: 2738444539
- ISBN-13: 978-2738444530
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.4 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 440 g
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A Truly Great Author, Sep 3 2006
By Peggy F. Finch "Goblintrain" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Théophile gautier (Paperback)
I don't think that many English speaking people realize this but Mister Gautier, on along with his many other pursuits wrote one of the very best of vampire stories a good 60 years ahead of Bram Stoker.Gautier's story "The Beautiful Dead" while much shorter than the novel Dracula, and Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, introduces essential ideas that we see built upon in the vampire literature of the later 19th century. Gautier writes an exceedingly erotic story. He takes the idea that John Polidori suggested in 1816 of a sexually attractive vampire, & makes it a woman instead. But there is a major difference with Gautier's vampire, which will be immortalized in literature and film ever after. This is a creature of passion. Or... is she very very deceptive? I think that the reader can not say for sure at the end, and i also think that i am not the only reader that Clarimonde had convinced to follow her, even if it would ultimately possibly mean dying to do so. A very brave, honest, and creative mind developed this short story.
Funny enough, while it was originally written in French, it is also one of the most beautiful English language horror stories, much thanks to the quality of it's early translation. Written in 1836, this story is the step between Mr John Polidori's "Vampyre", published in 1819 and Mr Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla" of the 1870's. While there was much vampire literature published in between those dates, none of them over those 40 years, (60 years until Bram Stoker had Dracula published) shaped the way that we think of Vampires the way that Gautier's "The Beautiful Dead" did. Here in this story we have the author that perpetuated Polidori's passing attempt at creating an aristocrat vampire, and gave it merit with a truely great quality of writing. Sorry, i didn't wish to hijack this column, but i think that this is a point that readers should understand about Mr Gautier. He was a truly gifted & wide thinking human being.
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