Poslední, nerealizovaný scénář z konce tvůrčího období klasika surrealistické kinematografie.
Durtal Série
Tato série se noří do temných zákoutí lidské psychiky a okultních tajemství. Sleduje cestu protagonisty, který se propadá do světa satanských rituálů, magie a dekadence. Je to fascinující ponor do dekadentní atmosféry přelomu století, kde se hranice mezi realitou a nadpřirozenem stírají. Díla zkoumají posedlost, zvrácenost a hledání smyslu v nejtemnějších koutech existence.
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En Route
- 322 stránek
- 12 hodin čtení
In this autobiographical novel, the author tells the story of a writer and his return to the Catholic faith. An admirer of the Middle Ages, cathedrals, and ancient religious painting, the hero stays in a convent to try to resolve his moral dilemma. A novel of conversion, which fails, it explores spiritual life, the church, and the convent, paving the way for later writers like Mauriac and Bernanos. Finally, like "Against Nature," it is a great narcissistic reverie, an interior monologue where erotic imagination and prayer, aestheticism and asceticism struggle. As the author himself said, he fell "like a meteorite."
The Cathedral
- 364 stránek
- 13 hodin čtení
After the Satanic debaucheries of La -bas (1891) and the sensual battles of En Route (1895), comes the cloistered calm of The Cathedral (1898). In this long, reflective novel, Huysmans' alter-ego, Durtal, sets out to explore the mystic symbolism embodied in one of the greatest gothic edifices in France, Chartres cathedral. Written at the time of the Dreyfus Affair, a political scandal that threatened to tear France apart, Chartres cathedral became for Huysmans a potent symbol of the harmonious diversity of the Middle Ages, one that had the potential to unify the divisions in contemporary French society. This complex, multi-layered vision of Chartres cathedral as a structure in which art, science and religion could exist in harmony rather than discord, captured the public imagination on its first publication, and The Cathedral became a runaway bestseller. This edition contains 20 photographs of parts of Chartres cathedral mentioned in the text.