Name: The Damned (La-bas)
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Author: Blackwood, Algernon
ISBN: 9781545043684

Type

Physical Book

Author

Algernon Blackwood

Publisher

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Language

Inglés

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.4 cm

Weight

0.12 kg.

ISBN13

9781545043684

Synopsis "The Damned (La-bas)"

"You shrug your shoulders, but tell me, how much has naturalism done to clear up life's really troublesome mysteries? When an ulcer of the soul-or indeed the most benign little pimple-is to be probed, naturalism can do nothing. 'Appetite and instinct' seem to be its sole motivation and rut and brainstorm its chronic states. The field of naturalism is the region below the umbilicus. Oh, it's a hernia clinic and it offers the soul a truss! "I tell you, Durtal, it's superficial quackery, and that isn't all. This fetid naturalism eulogizes the atrocities of modern life and flatters our positively American ways. It ecstasizes over brute force and apotheosizes the cash register. With amazing humility it defers to the nauseating taste of the mob. It repudiates style, it rejects every ideal, every aspiration towards the supernatural and the beyond. It is so perfectly representative of bourgeois thought that it might be sired by Homais and dammed by Lisa, the butcher girl in Ventre de Paris."

Algernon Blackwood

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(Reino Unido, 1869 - 1951). Escritor de relatos fantásticos, periodista y locutor de radio. Narró sus propios escritos en radio y televisión y escribió una autobiografía de sus primeros años. Su escrito, Los Sauces, es considerado uno de los mejores cuentos de terror de la historia. Fue una de las principales influencias de H.P. Lovecraft, quien lo definió como «maestro absoluto e incuestionable de la atmósfera espectral».

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