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Bezig met laden... Zanoni (1842)door Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A romance about an immortal. Elements of almost lovecraftian horror. Takes a long time to draw its female protagonist before the main elements start. Mixes in some real historical characters and events. Didn't like the ending but not because its not well written more because i was so invested in the story by then, i was hoping things would turn out differently. Overall just a really good supernatural/romance story. I'm pretty sure this was adapted into the film 'Hancock' with Will Smith. ( ) Bulwer-Lytton’s novel Zanoni romanticized Rosicrucianism for 19th-century readers, and it became a staple of occultist bookshelves. It tells the story of a Rosicrucian adept in the 18th century whose use of the elixir of life has sustained him since the ancient Babylonian empire, and who ultimately sacrifices his magical immortality. Zanoni refers to the adept’s Holy Guardian Angel or personal genius as “Adonai,” a usage later adopted by both Anna Kingsford and Aleister Crowley, among others. Golden Dawn founder MacGregor Mathers first became interested in the occult after reading Zanoni. He used “Zanoni” as a nickname; his wife and close friends called him “Zan” in conversation. Zanoni also depicts an ordeal involving “The Guardian of the Threshold.” Madame Blavatsky would evolve this phrase into “the Dweller of the Threshold,” specifically citing Zanoni, and she affirmed the reality of the phenomenon, also referencing “Porphyry and other philosophers” regarding its nature. Blavatsky was so taken with the occult descriptions in Zanoni that the first volume of her Isis Unveiled quotes the novel for more than a full page. “Such,” she writes, “is the insufficient sketch of elemental beings void of divine spirit, given by one whom many with reason believed to know more than he was prepared to admit in the face of an incredulous public” (IU, I, 286). Crowley later took up this thread in Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente, chapter IV, verse 34: “On the threshold stood the fulminant figure of Evil … .” In his commentary, he relates this figure explicitly to Zanoni’s exposition of “the Evil Persona, the Dweller on the Threshold, portrayed sensationally for the trade by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton.” It is hard to overestimate the influence of Zanoni on occultists in the late 19th century, and the extent to which it was credited as an informed representation of magical adeptship. ZANONI O EL SECRETO DE LOS INMORTALES Edward Bulwer Lytton, el célebre autor de «Los últimos dias de Pompeya realizó algunas sobresalientes incursiones en la literatura fantástica, como «Zanoniv o ca Strange Story» La larga sombra del vampiro ha oscurecido a los demás inmortales góticos, como Fausto el Judio Errante, o Zanoni, el cual pertenece a una sociedad secreta -más antigua que los Rosac que utilizaba el poder de la vida eterma para buenos propósitos. El personaje central de la narración es un ser misterioso, de origen desconocido de quien se cuentan cosas extraordinarias que vive consagrado a sus estudios herméticos hasta que se enamora de la bella Viola Pisani, ídolo de la ópera de Nápoles. Desde ese momento, los amantes estarán sometidos a toda suerte de vicisitudes; un drama mágico que concluye durante los días del Terror, bajo el imperio de Robespierre y la sombra ominosa de la guillotina. ZANONI O EL SECRETO DE LOS INMORTALES EDWARD BULWER LYTTON el célebre autor de Los últimos dias de Pompeya, realizó algunas sobresalientes incursiones en la literatura fantástica, como Zanoni o A Strange Story. La larga sombra del vampiro ha oscurecido a los demás inmortales góticos, como Fausto, el Judío Errante, o Zanoni, el cual pertenece a una sociedad secreta más antigua que los Rosacruces- que utilizaba el poder de la vida eterna para buenos propósitos. El personaje central de la narración es un ser misterioso, de origen desconocido y de quien se cuentan cosas extraordinarias, que vive consagrado a sus estudios herméticos hasta que se enamora de la bella Viola Pisani, ídolo de la ópera de Nápoles. Desde ese momento, los amantes estarán sometidos a toda suerte de vicisitudes. Un drama mágico que concluye durante los días del Terror, bajo el imperio de Robespierre y la sombra ominosa de la guillotina geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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This 1842 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton tells a complicated story of love and occult aspiration, interlacing three separate plots. The first chapters give few clues to the fascinating mysteries revealed later in the book, but the wait is worth the effort. The seven parts of the novel give an indication of a sevenfold path of spiritual development lying behind the story itself. The fourth section, "The Dweller of the Threshold," is a highly significant expression of profound spiritual experience, and this book is one of the finest examples of spiritual fiction. The author himself noted, "As a work of imagination, Zanoni ranks, perhaps, amongst the highest of my prose fictions." Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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