Seven Gothic Tales
A Cultural, Literature, Scandinavian Literature book. The real difference between God and human beings, he thought, was that God cannot stand continuance. No sooner has he...
Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the first book by "one of the finest and most singular artists of our time" (The Atlantic), is a modern classic. Here are seven exquisite tales combining the keen psychological insight characteristic of the modern short story with the haunting mystery of the nineteenth-century Gothic tale, in the tradition of writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, and Poe.
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- Pages: 420 pages
- ISBN: 9780394742915 / 394742915
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For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide. Karen Blixen, Seven Gothic Tales // The real difference between God and human beings, he thought, was that God cannot stand continuance. No sooner has he created a season of a year, or a time of the day, than he wishes for something quite different, and sweeps it all away. No sooner was one a young man, and happy at that, than the nature of things would rush one into marriage, martyrdom or old age. And human beings cleave to the existing state of things. All their lives they are striving to hold the moment fast....Their art itself is nothing but the attempt to catch by all means the one... Where, My Lord, is music bredupon the instrument or within the ear that listens? The loveliness of woman is created in the eye of man. Karen Blixen, Seven Gothic Tales //
Im not sure what makes these stories Gothic. They are all set in the past, the first half of the Nineteenth Century; two of them bring in the uncanny or supernatural in a matter-of-fact way; but Im not sure if that makes them Gothic. But, for me, their most noticeable characteristic is the excess of narrative...or maybe the celebration... Any book that feels like it was "worth it in the end" isn't a good read during the actual reading. This was too layered for my taste: inset stories were everywhere; extraneous details and plots made my head spin; melodrama abounded. Potentially, these are hall,arks of the era in which Dinesen (Karen Blixen, she of _Out of Africa_ fame)... The stories in this book were ok. They didn't leave too much of an impression on me. The tales were supposed to be in a Gothic vein, but they just couldn't get there.
