Lovecraft : Œuvres 3

Œuvres de H.P. Lovecraft #3

by H.P. Lovecraft

A côté de quelques contes parodiques qui confirment l'humour et les talents de faussaire — ou de pasticheur — de l'inventeur du Necronomicon, ce volume est consacré au monde du Rêve et aux aventures qu'il inspire. Les rêves que Lovecraft racontait à ses amis (Rêves et Chimères) s'accompagnent des nouvelles qu'il en a tirées. Recueillies dans La Malédiction de Sarnath, elles servent de prélude à son étonnant chef d’œuvre, le cycle des aventures de Randolph Carter, intitulé Démons et Merveilles. L'atmosphère onirique dans laquelle baignent de façon ininterrompue son œuvre et sa vie, Lovecraft la trouvait aussi dans certains décors de la réalité incarnant pour lui un passé fabuleux — comme le démontre Description de la ville de Québec, un guide de voyage qu'il a composé pour un utilisateur unique : lui-même.

Genres: Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction

1360 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1992

About the author

Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction.

Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.

Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe.
See also Howard Phillips Lovecraft.

— Wikipedia