STUDIES Lovecraftian
# 6 Winter 2008
pp. 72 - Euro 7.00
Summary:
- THE RATS IN THE WALL: A JOURNEY OF BODY BUILDING
Andrea and James Becherini Bencistà
The new essay by Andrea and James Becherini Bencistà ( authors Lie and Persecution in the horror of Dunwich , the book that launched the series "book" of Dagon Press) deals with one of the most representative of the production horror stories of HP Lovecraft "The Rats in the Walls." The piece offers an intriguing reading of the novel semiotic-psychoanalytic key in the story, which was originally published in the pages of Weird Tales (in number of March 1924), and also a possible hidden meaning to the elusive and invisible tenants living in the walls of the house De la Poer. It also discusses the socio-cultural contextualisation from which originates the story, which offer interpretation becomes "abyss of lack of communication" but also "sacrificial crisis" and a metaphor for breaking the individual control of the mechanisms that lead to violence. Here, then, that the text of Lovecraft opens and grows up to become an icon of any society "is always the risk of being engulfed by violence, di perdere in tal modo la propria specificità e di sprofondare nell’indifferenziazione naturale da cui si è sollevata”. Una visione inquietante, quantomai attuale nei tempi incerti in cui versa attualmente la nostra società, e che dimostra una volta di più quanto acume possa nascondersi anche dietro le apparentemente semplici righe di un racconto dell’orrore.
- TOLKIEN E LOVECRAFT: DUE GRANDI DEL FANTASTICO A CONFRONTO
di Maria Raffaelle Benvenuto
“Tolkien e Lovecraft” è il testo integrale di una brillante relazione della prof.ssa Benvenuto presentata nell’ambito della conferenza intitolata “Dagli Abissi. Echi di Orrore Soprannaturale tra Tolkien e Lovecraft”, tenutasi il 5 e il 6 agosto 2006 a Cornello di Tasso, in provincia di Bergamo. Due universi radicalmente differenti, come sono quelli di HPL e di Tolkien (l’uno materista-meccanicista, l’altro manicheo-religioso) vengono qui equiparati, con profusione di note e citazioni, sulla base di fonti e influenze comuni che si dipanano tra mitologia e letteratura gotica, estetica decadente e simbolismi, Algernon Blackwood, ecc. Ne scaturisce un’intrigante e affascinante analisi in parallelo, un confronto organico e articolato, per originalità e spunti, e sicuramente inedito per quanto riguarda l’Italia.
- IL SERPENTE SPIUMATO: OVVERO GNOSTICI VOODOO, LICANTROPI, VAMPIRI E H. P. LOVECRAFT
di Luca Foffano
The third piece, written by Luke Foffano Finally, make a little 'criticism of clarity in one of the most discussed and controversial studies Lovecraftian: the writer's alleged involvement with the occult Traditional in Providence, which opens at this time off the beaten paths, penetrating into the darkest depths of esotericism and avoided more "hidden", that of Italian origin. And it does so with a long review, which is also an essay of rare erudition, of two books recently published by two small publishing houses specializing in esoteric texts.
- REVIEWS
by Andrea Bonazzi, Luca Foffano, Pietro Guarriello, Stefano Mazza, Bruno Gargano.
have reviewed the following books: The concept of transfiguration HP Lovecraft for a change in human and social (Publisher Primordia) The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (Rizzoli Bur); HP Lovecraft, the horror of reality. The worldview of the renewal of fantastic fiction. Letters 1915-1937 (Ohara); History of the Necronomicon of HP Lovecraft (Venexia Publishing), Michele Tetro, Eye burning M'Batian (Ed Del Nano); Tribute to HP Lovecraft ( Magnetic Editions).
Winter 2008 pp. 72 - Euro 7.00
Summary:
- UTOPIA IN FICTION AND FANTASY OF HP Lovecraft
Gilles Menegaldo
An important test of international criticism, presented here in the first translation for Italy. “Utopia e Fantastico nella Narrativa di H. P. Lovecraft” tende a dimostrare, con assoluta padronanza di mezzi critici, come l’opera di Lovecraft si inserisca all’incrocio di tre generi: il fantastico, la fantascienza, l’utopia; per far questo si analizzano in dettaglio due dei migliori racconti del Lovecraft maturo: “At the Mountains of Madness” e “The Shadow Out of Time”, che Menegaldo definisce delle “perfette visioni utopistiche”. Scopriamo quindi che l’affiorare di elementi utopici in questi racconti, sarebbe il risultato di un processo lento e cosciente di elaborazione, strettamente collegato con l’evoluzione delle idee politiche e sociali maturate dallo scrittore Providence.
- THE CHIMERA Dunwich and other anomalies: ASSOCIATED Cthulhu Mythos
Will Murray Will Murray
The American, noted expert on Lovecraft and pulp literature , examines critically those that are the basis of the mythological sources "Cthulhu Mythos" Lovecraftian, in particular the great influence of the Greek classical literature and folklore about some of the stories of the writer in Providence, then HPL influences, adapting them to reshape their personal vision. This essay appeared in Issue 8 of the original Lovecraft Studies.
- Azathoth AS THE WORLD - AND MORE THAN ANYTHING
Paul Monteleone
On the philosophical system is the essay by Paul Monteleone, which focuses on the figure of Azathoth, Lovecraftian version of universal chaos, and that appears cryptically in the sonnet of Fungi from Yuggoth that bears her title. Transcendental figure par excellence of the pantheon and nihilistic writer in Providence, Lovecraft nell'incoscio Azathoth emerge on the basis of his reading of Nietzsche's philosophical and Schopenahauer. Yet unpublished translation by Lovecraft Studies.
- FLASHES OF DARKNESS: AN EVENING AT THE THEATRE WITH Poe and Lovecraft
Louis Musolino
One of our new partner gives us a detailed review of poetry and even a play based on the works of Poe and Lovecraft, staged recently at the Milan theater Cabot Theatre Company Gianluca Frigerio. While the wings are moving, ethereal, like ghosts, the shadows of the two writers ...
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REVIEWS edited by ST Joshi, Peter Guarriello, Andrea Bonazzi, Fabrice Marcon, Bruno Gargano.
have reviewed the following books: The Lovecraft Chronicles (Subterranean Press), HP Lovecraft, Letters to Alfred Galpin (Hippocampus Press); Primal Sources: Essays on HP Lovecraft (Hippocampus Press); The Lovecraft Lexicon (New Falcon Publ.) Lovecraft: The Anthology (Editorial Océano); The Strange Sound of Cthulhu (Ed. Lulu press); Le Livre here makes fou / A Book of Unspeakable Things (Maison d'Ailleurs) HP Lovecraft: Tales (The Library of America).
