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Vera
Translated by Christopher G. Fox
- GenresShort Stories
13 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 21, 2010
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Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
274 books96 followersJean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (7 November 1838 – 19 August 1889) was a French symbolist writer.
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February 8, 2017
Junto con las cuatro mujeres de Poe (Ligeia, Morella, Eleonora y Berenice) y La Muerta Enamorada, es el típico ejemplo e la femme fatale del Romanticismo, con la muerte como mediadora entre los amantes.
September 16, 2019
Oh my anima... l'Isle-Adam is a treasure. I was indeed expecting tons of symbolical irrationality by the words themselves, the way Mallarmé creating hovering intimation and evaporating images between lines, but I didn't expect l'Isle Adam to be THIS GOOD, my hat off to this love story both as a critical footnote on Resurrection (or a love story archetyped from Resurrection) and as an intoxicating anima complex case.
All the images within the story serves neatly to explain how much an idea could do to reality, how arbitrary symbols when forms into a system with carriers, a thinking mode, in return manipulates the individual behaviors affected by it (e.g. Raymond, the old steward, "before three weeks had passed he felt at moments that he was himself the dupe of his good-will. The suppressed thought was fading!Sometimes, experiencing a kind of dizziness, he felt compelled to assure himself that the Countess was no more, positively was dead. He became adept in the melancholy pretence, and every moment he grew more forgetful of reality.") then later, as in D’Athol's case, senses reception itself.
Tbh never had I seen so clearly how symbolism as a pure rebellion against impressionism. For impressionism, in most cases, senses as raw materiel is final and irreducibly absolute, yet symbolism raises a questionable eyebrow on that. Senses can be manipulated if a system of symbols is imposed forcefully upon it, be the method mental castration or repression or look like goodwill and care. A sheer Will of that enlivens the impression of Vera to which he pours out his life energy turns out that "in the bluish glass he saw himself paler than his wont". The scintillating lovely images even the resting of time, all is real to D’Athol, Jung once commented on cases that anima/animus when projecting out brightens the sensual world by stealing the light/energy of life, which I think is also a good reference to a reason why symbolism opposed to impressionism's emphasizing on senses for senses in life, are not raw at all.
The picture is more clear that even if D’Athol came to his senses and cried out that "I remember now! What am I doing?—You, you are dead!" and then beautiful and divine experiences he had lived evaporated their credibility, the despair and agony on the bereavement between him and his anima that was so strong, that a sheer Will that belongs to his ego not soon drove him to long for the system of language that shaped and generated experiences of seamless harmony that staved off such pain immediately. Resurrection and reunion in the end pointed to the requirement of a body, a material to live the experiences into real world, even it's already a corpse.
Sense data is not the last reservation of free escape from uncertainty and critical senses, for behind that nothing is raw and it is not raw. Yep, symbolism is a bad ass critical approach to tons of nasty issues functioning in real life rather than, what Arnold Hauser prejudiced in his art history, an escape from real life.
This little piece is dope.
All the images within the story serves neatly to explain how much an idea could do to reality, how arbitrary symbols when forms into a system with carriers, a thinking mode, in return manipulates the individual behaviors affected by it (e.g. Raymond, the old steward, "before three weeks had passed he felt at moments that he was himself the dupe of his good-will. The suppressed thought was fading!Sometimes, experiencing a kind of dizziness, he felt compelled to assure himself that the Countess was no more, positively was dead. He became adept in the melancholy pretence, and every moment he grew more forgetful of reality.") then later, as in D’Athol's case, senses reception itself.
Tbh never had I seen so clearly how symbolism as a pure rebellion against impressionism. For impressionism, in most cases, senses as raw materiel is final and irreducibly absolute, yet symbolism raises a questionable eyebrow on that. Senses can be manipulated if a system of symbols is imposed forcefully upon it, be the method mental castration or repression or look like goodwill and care. A sheer Will of that enlivens the impression of Vera to which he pours out his life energy turns out that "in the bluish glass he saw himself paler than his wont". The scintillating lovely images even the resting of time, all is real to D’Athol, Jung once commented on cases that anima/animus when projecting out brightens the sensual world by stealing the light/energy of life, which I think is also a good reference to a reason why symbolism opposed to impressionism's emphasizing on senses for senses in life, are not raw at all.
The picture is more clear that even if D’Athol came to his senses and cried out that "I remember now! What am I doing?—You, you are dead!" and then beautiful and divine experiences he had lived evaporated their credibility, the despair and agony on the bereavement between him and his anima that was so strong, that a sheer Will that belongs to his ego not soon drove him to long for the system of language that shaped and generated experiences of seamless harmony that staved off such pain immediately. Resurrection and reunion in the end pointed to the requirement of a body, a material to live the experiences into real world, even it's already a corpse.
Sense data is not the last reservation of free escape from uncertainty and critical senses, for behind that nothing is raw and it is not raw. Yep, symbolism is a bad ass critical approach to tons of nasty issues functioning in real life rather than, what Arnold Hauser prejudiced in his art history, an escape from real life.
This little piece is dope.
January 24, 2015
"Et ils s'aperçurent, alors, qu'ils n'étaient, réellement, qu'un seul être"
October 24, 2015
Antolog.Ciruela(07/55).Buen ambiente gotico
clasico sobre un devoto viudo que recupera por
breve instante a su esposa para perderla al
despertar.Similar a Ligeia de Poe.Muy bueno.
clasico sobre un devoto viudo que recupera por
breve instante a su esposa para perderla al
despertar.Similar a Ligeia de Poe.Muy bueno.
July 25, 2024
Relatively boring. Very weird metaphors and a complex writing. It’s pretty similar to most stories of dead wives or lovers. It was also rather confusing.
September 18, 2024
3.5 *
I'll study it tomorrow, will update if it changes anything
I'll study it tomorrow, will update if it changes anything
April 4, 2025
Romanticismo puro. El amor, la negación de la muerte y la oscuridad envolvente de seguir a la amada.
September 21, 2025
Holly s*it! I LOVED this short story! Poetic, romantic, passionate, tragic, gloomy...
p.s. I just knew the author was a Scorpio 😄
p.s. I just knew the author was a Scorpio 😄
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