The illustration front of the book, inspired by "The Rats in the Walls" is an original design created specifically by Matthew Bocci, who also worked on the lettering of the title. The image of back cover has been kindly granted by the artist Massimo Rotundo.
essays Lovecraftian BACK TO PRESS DAGON . And it's a comeback, for a total volume of 240 pages is devoted to the study and analysis of three of the first literary narrative poems of HP Lovecraft, three stories that have made history in horror, while being disconnected from most famous cycle of the Cthulhu Mythos: the stories in question are "Nyarlathotep," "The Rats in the Wall" and "Cold Air", the classic first-class magnum opus in writer in Providence. And it is Sisia Umberto, one of our most capable staff (and for once is an Italian to mark the cultural map of the critical field Lovecraftian) and in this book has dealt with thoroughly analyze them, almost paragraph by paragraph, disclosing all aspects narrative, every literary ancestry, symbolic, mythological and cultural present, and the many underlying philosophical meanings and hidden in the text. A multidisciplinary research and meticulous to Sisia, which has never been done before on these stories, and so it is unique. One more step in (and one of the most important) to discover the universe that is enclosed behind the big stories of the Master of Weird Tales .
The book, titled, emblematic of which seem suggestive AGENTS OF CHAOS. THREE TALES OF Lovecraft BETWEEN TRADITION AND INNOVATION , illustrated with excellent plates of contemporary authors, consists of three long chapters (with various sub), each dedicated to the stories in question:
1) "Mitoipoiesi dream: The singular If Nyarlathotep. "
2) "The Rats out of the wall: A survey of a gothic tale of Lovecraft.
3) "Cool Air: The cold and its consequences."
diegetic nature of the text is Sisia makes it clear from the very first lines, and his criticism is always well-argued, clear and compelling as the stories of which is determined also by a number of critical sources of reference (more than 200 annotations to the text) that are evident even in the large bibliography attached at the bottom of the volume. Permanently, this book is destined to become a true icon of Lovecraftian critical in Italy, the ultimate guide to the three tales in question, analyzed the lively literary analysis nell'interdisciplinarietà analytical verve of the young scholar Umberto Sisia , a brilliant promise which never fails to reveal his brilliant analysis even on the pages of Lovecraftian Studies .
Il libro è introdotto da una Presentazione del prof. Massimo Berruti, un nome ormai noto nel campo della critica lovecraftiana italiana e internazionale (suoi saggi sullo scrittore di Providence sono stati pubblicati su diverse rivista americane, tra cui Lovecraft Studies , Lovecraft Annual , Studies in Fantasy Fiction , oltre che sulle pagine della nostra Studi Lovecraftiani ) di cui riportiamo qui sotto un piccolo estratto:
“AGENTI DEL CAOS” si compone di tre saggi dedicati a tre diversi e differenti racconti di H. P. Lovecraft. La scelta va dal racconto breve di ispirazione onirica "Nyarlathotep" (1920), alle tematiche goticheggianti e più dichiaratamente Poe-sche de "I topi nel muro" (1923), per finire con le atmosfere macabre apparentemente classiche di "Aria fredda" (1926). Tutte opere considerate "minori" nella produzione di Lovecraft, così come apparirebbero a un giudizio superficiale, ma che si rivelano invece attraverso la brillante analisi di Sisia come opere intimamente legate da un "filo rosso" che non si limita a coinvolgere aspetti esclusivamente formali (quali il dialogo che Lovecraft instaura tra il vecchio e il nuovo della letteratura weird, la sua ricerca di una voce originale e di un affinamento dei mezzi espressivi), ma che pure rivela una sorprendente, e a prima vista insospettabile, coerenza tematica. Quindi si tratta di testi significativi to get to the seminal concept of Myths arising from cosmic philosophy of the writer. Just
with reference to the timing of these stories, it is important to note that the subtitle of the essay reads "Three tales of Lovecraft between innovation and tradition." It is the dialectic between these two poles, that of novelty and of respect for tradition, which engages Sisia its critical discourse, noting how sharply the three Lovecraftian works represent significant stages of the "gym" where the writers are solitary Providence tried his hand at the stage preceding the creation of the "Cthulhu Mythos". A long phase-in period during which maintains a constant Lovecraft dialogue with the tradition of classic Gothic, the oneiric Dunsany, the lesson of Poe, Machen and Chambers, at the same time refining their means of expression and aesthetic setting the stage for the development of a genuinely new and exquisitely poetic "Lovecraftian," that, to be that will make his "Cthulhu Mythos" (or, to put it to Joshi, "Lovecraft Mythos") the most original contribution to the literature of horror and science fiction, the philosophical no less than on literary and aesthetic.
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