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Bezig met laden... Lord of a Visible Worlddoor H. P. Lovecraft
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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. Though HP Lovecraft has a (mostly unmerited) reputation for being a recluse, he kept in touch with many people through correspondence, and the volume of his letters dwarfs his fiction and amateur press work. Joshi and co-editor David Schulz have drawn from his vast correspondence to create an account of HPL's life in his own words. Excerpts have been organized chronologically and thematically, to provide an account of Lovecraft's life and adventures, as well as his evolving views on science, society, and fiction. As anyone who's familiar with him knows, HPL was quite an interesting figure: a man who embraced science but thought he belonged in the 18th century, who rejected religion but clung to notions of racial difference, and whose fiction could be both bold and reactionary. While this is not the most thorough of biographies, since there are some subjects that the Old Gent was reluctant to put in his correspondence, the opportunity to read about it from his perspective is worth it. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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In Lord of a Visible World, the editors have amassed and arranged the letters of this prolific writer into the story of his life. The volume traces Lovecraft's upbringing in Providence, Rhode Island, his involvement with the pulp magazine Weird Tales, his short-lived marriage, and his later status as the preeminent man of letters in his field. In addition to conveying the candid details of his life, the volume also traces the evolution of his wide-ranging opinions. Lovecraft shows himself to be deeply engaged in the social, political, and cultural milieu of his time. The editors, two of the leading Lovecraft scholars, have meticulously edited the text, transcribing the letters from manuscript sources and supplying explanatory annotations throughout. Lord of a Visible World is of interest to both the general reader and the scholar, presenting for the first time a well-rounded portrait, in his own words, of a writer whose work has fascinated millions of readers. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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This autobiography of Lovecraft helps explain why he has attained the reputation he has today, why he was not forgotten. He was a charming, interesting correspondent whether we’re reading the minute details of how he lived on $2.10 of food a week, his recounting to his aunt Annie of his quest to get a cheap cooking stove, his manic quest to replace the suits stolen from him in New York, his travels to Quebec and Charleston and New Orleans, the close examination and reviews he gave those young writers he mentored, and his views on race and socialism. Lovecraft comes across as thoughtful, a close examiner of the things in his life and writing, a man many remember fondly though they just corresponded with him. There is the moving letter to the depressed Helen Sully in which Lovecraft outlines his practical stoicism. Despite his poverty and disappointment at how his writing career has turned out, he relates the many things he does take joy in. Marcus Aurelius would have been proud of his attitude. I smiled when I read how Lovecraft said nobody would catch his linguistic goof in the language of his devolving protagonist in “The Rats in the Wall”. Someone did and that was Robert Howard who became a dear friend of Lovecraft. (We also get the reasons Lovecraft admired Howard -- not his intellect but his vigor and energy.) Lovecraft’s sincere interest in helping young writers is shown in his letter to R. H. Barlow about teenage wunderkind Kenneth Sterling with whom he co-wrote “In the Walls of Eryx”.
“Appendix: Some Notes on a Nonentity”, H. P. Lovecraft -- A tightly condensed 1933 autobiographical essay in which Lovecraft not only outlines his life and interests but his inspirations in other authors and landscapes as well as theory of horror writing. ( )