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Il re in giallo
Il re in Giallo non è solo un libro. È una crepa nella mente. Un contagio silenzioso. In una New York sospesa tra il presente e qualcosa che ancora non esiste, un dramma proibito comincia a circolare. Chi lo legge sente voci, cade in una vertigine che ha la forma della normalità, deforma le stanze, frantuma l'identità. Tutto inizia in un momento l'apertura del libro. Da lì nulla si ricompone. All'inizio è una presenza un testo maledetto, un'opera dentro l'opera, che non può essere letta senza conseguenze. È la scrittura che devasta chi tenta di penetrarla. Un dio? Un'ombra? Nessuno sa cosa sia il re, ma la sua assenza prende forma. Nei racconti della seconda parte, tutto si sposta su un'altra restano visioni, ricordi, crepe nella memoria. La logica cede, la realtà si piega. Pubblicato nel 1895, questo libro è un punto di rottura. Chambers scrive un'opera che precede Lovecraft, anticipa l'orrore cosmico, distrugge la distanza tra ciò che si racconta e ciò che si vive. Il Re in giallo - nella nuova traduzione di Massimo Scorsone, che restitui- sce con esattezza il ritmo e la patina della lingua originaria - ha fatto del weird un filtro per raccontare la scomposizione del reale. È uno di quei testi che non si limitano a modificano irrevocabilmente ciò che è possibile scrivere. E percepire.
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Published October 28, 2025
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Robert W. Chambers
1,143 books580 followersRobert William Chambers was an American artist and writer.
Chambers was first educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute,and then entered the Art Students' League at around the age of twenty, where the artist Charles Dana Gibson was his fellow student. Chambers studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, and at Académie Julian, in Paris from 1886 to 1893, and his work was displayed at the Salon as early as 1889. On his return to New York, he succeeded in selling his illustrations to Life, Truth, and Vogue magazines. Then, for reasons unclear, he devoted his time to writing, producing his first novel, In the Quarter (written in 1887 in Munich). His most famous, and perhaps most meritorious, effort is The King in Yellow, a collection of weird short stories, connected by the theme of the fictitious drama The King in Yellow, which drives those who read it insane.
Chambers returned to the weird genre in his later short story collections The Maker of Moons and The Tree of Heaven, but neither earned him such success as The King in Yellow.
Chambers later turned to writing romantic fiction to earn a living. According to some estimates, Chambers was one of the most successful literary careers of his period, his later novels selling well and a handful achieving best-seller status. Many of his works were also serialized in magazines.
After 1924 he devoted himself solely to writing historical fiction.
Chambers for several years made Broadalbin his summer home. Some of his novels touch upon colonial life in Broadalbin and Johnstown.
On July 12, 1898, he married Elsa Vaughn Moller (1882-1939). They had a son, Robert Edward Stuart Chambers (later calling himself Robert Husted Chambers) who also gained some fame as an author.
Chambers died at his home in the village of Broadalbin, New York, on December 16th 1933.
Chambers was first educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute,and then entered the Art Students' League at around the age of twenty, where the artist Charles Dana Gibson was his fellow student. Chambers studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, and at Académie Julian, in Paris from 1886 to 1893, and his work was displayed at the Salon as early as 1889. On his return to New York, he succeeded in selling his illustrations to Life, Truth, and Vogue magazines. Then, for reasons unclear, he devoted his time to writing, producing his first novel, In the Quarter (written in 1887 in Munich). His most famous, and perhaps most meritorious, effort is The King in Yellow, a collection of weird short stories, connected by the theme of the fictitious drama The King in Yellow, which drives those who read it insane.
Chambers returned to the weird genre in his later short story collections The Maker of Moons and The Tree of Heaven, but neither earned him such success as The King in Yellow.
Chambers later turned to writing romantic fiction to earn a living. According to some estimates, Chambers was one of the most successful literary careers of his period, his later novels selling well and a handful achieving best-seller status. Many of his works were also serialized in magazines.
After 1924 he devoted himself solely to writing historical fiction.
Chambers for several years made Broadalbin his summer home. Some of his novels touch upon colonial life in Broadalbin and Johnstown.
On July 12, 1898, he married Elsa Vaughn Moller (1882-1939). They had a son, Robert Edward Stuart Chambers (later calling himself Robert Husted Chambers) who also gained some fame as an author.
Chambers died at his home in the village of Broadalbin, New York, on December 16th 1933.
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January 4, 2026
2.5/5⭐
Tanto interessanti e curiose le prime storie, quanto banali e noiose e dimenticabili le ultime romantiche.
Tanto interessanti e curiose le prime storie, quanto banali e noiose e dimenticabili le ultime romantiche.
December 20, 2025
le prime storie sono avvincenti, l’horror che mi piace, mettono una fondazione interessante su un mythos che continua anche lustri dopo la morte dell’autore, tra ispirazioni date ai grandi della letteratura dell’orrore e rimandi odierni. le ultime però, perdono questo filo e cadono nella mediocrità di piccole storielle d’amore, non tanto brillanti esponenti del momento letterario del decadentismo
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