Just a year ago, I thought it was highly improbable I would discover a new literary masterpiece within my cultural environment. Not that there aren’t any masterpieces I haven’t read ( I’ve spent many years struggling with depression, so I’ve missed many books that would have added to my experience as a reader if myContinue reading “Gormenghast, a Masterpiece”
Category Archives: Fantastic_Literature
Verano en Gormenghast
¿Es una buena idea pasar el verano en Gormenghast?
A Geography of Dreams V
Flats, strange towers of flats, schools where you have to run in and out and a university that looks like a castle. To read in Spanish and English go here and click on number V. El número V del índice es el artículo que corresponde a Pisos, escuelas, universidades y otros parajes fantasma.
La biografía de Lovecraft, por J.S. Joshi – J.S. Joshi’s Biography of H.P. Lovecraft
Pasa el tiempo y aquí estoy, leyendo la biografía de Lovecraft, pues se trata de la obra de J.S. Joshi, enorme y minuciosa. ¿Cuántos días han transcurrido desde que empecé? No lo recuerdo. Sólo sé que hay una estación marcada por el clima del libro, y en ella estoy, en el descubrimiento y la apropiaciónContinue reading “La biografía de Lovecraft, por J.S. Joshi – J.S. Joshi’s Biography of H.P. Lovecraft”
Dream Poems
Inside my project A Geography of Dreams you can find the first of my Dream Poems. It’s title is Full Light of Midnight. It’s number IV in the INDEX.The illustration is from a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797).
George MacDonald, Fantasy Writer
Some thoughts on George MacDonald as one of the founding authors of the Fantasy Genre
I’m back
I’m back, after one of my journeys into the Underworld. This time it was the round chamber. The way out is there, but you can’t see it. You go round and round, checking and counting, arranging and rearranging, pondering and going over the whole thing once again and once again… The atmosphere was rather gloomy.Continue reading “I’m back”
From Dreamland to Nightmare. The role of dreams in H.P Lovecraft’s narrative.
When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams. Prior to that time he had made up for the prosiness of life by nightly excursions to strange and ancient cities beyond space, and lovely, unbelievable garden lands across ethereal seas; but as middle age hardened upon him he felt theseContinue reading “From Dreamland to Nightmare. The role of dreams in H.P Lovecraft’s narrative.”
The Omniscient Narrator
Some weeks ago —how many I cannot tell because I have an awful memory and a peculiar sense of time— I was reading two books, one of them in Spanish, the other one in English. The first was a novel by Benito Pérez Galdós whose title is “Miau” and yes, that’s the onomatopoeic Spanish wordContinue reading “The Omniscient Narrator”
Jonathan Strange y el señor Norrell
Descubrí Jonathan Strange y Mr Norrell por la serie de TV, en la que encontré elementos que me atrajeron mucho y, sobre todo, una forma de combinarlos profundamente original. Aún no conocía a Susanna Clarke y no sabía que estaba ante la marca de la casa. Pero era evidente que esos elementos venían de laContinue reading “Jonathan Strange y el señor Norrell”
Mary Wolfhouse & CO 