Traditionally, the weekend of All Saints, we celebrate the dead on November 2. This year, House Hantee.com decided to celebrate the undead. Currently very popular with Twilight saga and output library following the Dracula by Bram Stoker, designed by his great-nephew, vampires are full of fresh blood. This is an opportunity for us to bite your teeth a few references to these mythological creatures unleashed passions as always. few days ago, actors of Twilight trod the red carpet at the Rome Film Festival. Vindication for those vampires of royal lineage. Inspired by the four best-selling Stephenie Meyer, Twilight movies ("Twilight" by French) tells the love story between a teenage girl and a vampire centenary, his condition preserves the ravages of time and old age. The myth of eternal youth which humanity aspires in its denial of death. However, the titles of novels speak volumes about the stages of vampirism: fascination, temptation, doubt and revelation. For since time immemorial, the vampire scares as he seduces.
To life, death
Professor Emeritus retired specialist in vampire mythology, Jean Marigny said: " The permanence of the fascination that one feels for the vampire explained that this figure represents that all the problems of life, death, survival, the relations of domination between people at the love, pleasure, etc.. Compared with other traditional characters of literature that are the devil, ghosts, werewolves and other monsters, it is a very rich theme and summarizes all the possibilities and all the contradictions we feel in the depths of ourselves. "
Especially in times of crisis, the vampire is a catharsis of the collective unconscious, which by its bite fatal frees us of all our ills. In his thesis The Vampire in Literature Anglo-Saxon , published in 1985 in Didier-Erudition, Jean Marigny noted that the vampire literature is particularly rich in times of trouble. " I think particularly at the time of the inter-war period marked by the crash of Wall Street, the economic crisis, widespread unemployment, the rise of totalitarianism, and I also think the years of Cold War marked by the anticommunism and fear of nuclear holocaust, and then more recently to the identity crisis facing Western society since the upheavals of the 70s. Vampire literature has in turn reflected the current xenophobic prewar (fear of the Germans and Russians), anti-Cold War and more recently, the rejection of consumer society and traditional values, fear of AIDS, drugs, urban violence, industrial pollution, etc.. Every time the vampire was a different face. Contemporary youth finds himself in a character like Lestat, rock musician, maverick, who triumphs of mankind's ills. "
After Lestat, the vampire imagined by writer Anne Rice (Interview with a vampire), Edward is the Hero of Twilight .
Today, with economic turmoil, social and moral of today's world, young people prefer to take refuge in esoteric myths rather than face the realities, injustices and evils of the 21st century. However, television film, through literature, the vampire is more (dead) alive than ever! Excerpts follow.
Today, with economic turmoil, social and moral of today's world, young people prefer to take refuge in esoteric myths rather than face the realities, injustices and evils of the 21st century. However, television film, through literature, the vampire is more (dead) alive than ever! Excerpts follow.
Dracula and other masterpieces
We were talking about on this blog few days ago. Publishes a comprehensive omnibus works of Bram Stoker, around its core of Gothic literature, Dracula, the public discovered in 1897. Shock epistolary remains the absolute reference for fans of the genre, even if Theophile Gautier and Charles Nodier precursors Stoker opened the door.
Dracula Immortal
few hundred years later, a descendant of Stoker's great-grandnephew Dacre, assisted by a historian Ian Holt, a member of the Transylvanian Society of Dracula exhumed personal notes (descriptions of new characters, plots secondary, additional information on the original work) and unpublished pages, written by the hand of Bram. Both supported by the family of the Irish writer, they picked up the story twenty-five years after the epic ending to the castle of Count Dracula in Immortal , published by Michel Lafon (future column).
Pascal Croci
Powerful evocative visual, Dracula is also a goldmine for filmmakers and designers. As such, an illustrator has drawn particularly its game and won our admiration, is Pascal Croci. Writer, artist and colorist, Pascal Croci made his debut on religious cartoons for the Catholic press. Freed from this work order, he spends mystical Gothic featuring romantic dramas where the woman is magnified betrayed by his own. With his accomplice in writing, Sylvie Francoise Pauly, he has two albums on Dracula at EP Publishing, an illustrated travel book In Search of Dracula, travel diary of Jonathan Harker Clerics in Pre and more recently, a comic book on the legend of Elizabeth Bathory a female vampire, always at EP Editions. However, Pascal Croci's talent does not stop biting his sketches, his features emaciated and tortured, some works that remind me of dark symbolist painter and colorist of the nineteenth century, Odilon Redon. The contrasting colorization of thumbnail is sublime atmosphere. On funds cold purple characters, real living statues, bloodcurdling. As the gorgon in Homer, one of their morbid gaze you petrified with horror. To our delight.
Blood Potion Energy
Finally, to end on a humorous note (Halloween forces ...) I wanted to point out in January 2010 of a beverage that resembles voluntary blood: "Blood Energy Potion (Exhilarated blood-based). Packaged as an infusion bag, the nutritional values similar to those of blood, this "elixir" warms 14 seconds in microwave oven to drink to body temperature ... The icing on the cake, the labeling indicates the blood which the potion is supposed to match. I assure you, there is no blood in this beverage iron, protein and electrolytes. It's just a marketing concept glauquissime showing that the sill of vampirism has a commercial future, even more twisted.
Olivier
Dracula and other masterpieces
Bram Stoker
Edition prepared by Alain Pozzuoli and Jean-Pierre Kremer
Omnibus, October 2009
(Available on request)
Dracula Immortal
Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt
Michel Lafon, October 2009
Ultimate Dracula
Pascal Croci and Sylvie Francoise Pauly
Collection Atmospheres
Emmanuel Proust Editions, October 2009
In Search of Dracula, Book Travel of Jonathan Harker
Pascal Croci and Sylvie Francoise Pauly
The Pre Clerics, March 2008
Elizabeth Bathory
Pascal Croci and Sylvie Francoise Pauly
Collection Atmospheres
Emmanuel Proust Publishing, September 2009
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