Malpertuis: The Classic Modern Gothic Novel

Borel, Pétrus

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

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Champavert: Contes Immoraux (1872) (French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Aubry, Adrien

Literary

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Champavert was the archetypal collection of the French "contes cruels," and the book still remains among the cruellest of them all. It is also one of the greatest collections of short stories ever published; the only reason that it has never been translated before is that the job was so challenging that only an insane person would tackle it. Pétrus Borel the Lycanthrope (as he called himself) declared himself dead before the book was published, but not many people believed him, even though he was the most honest man in Paris. Here are seven classic tales of horror, fantasy, and the twistings of fate, including the final story, "Champavert, the Lycanthrope," translated from the French for the very first time by the well-known fantastist and critic, Brian Stableford.

Champavert: Immoral Tales

Genre Fiction

Borgo Press

Recueil de contes de P#65533;trus Borel, dit #65533;le Lycanthrope#65533;, pseudonyme de Joseph Pierre Borel d'Hauterive. Ces sept contes constituent avec Madame Putiphar, l'un des meilleurs exemples de la litt#65533;rature #65533;cadav#65533;reuse#65533; et du genre fr#65533;n#65533;tique, caract#65533;ris#65533;s par la recherche syst#65533;matique du hideux, des p#65533;rip#65533;ties sanglantes et des images atroces, parfois dispos#65533;es sans souci de logique. Mais P#65533;trus Borel d#65533;passe ces conventions pour conf#65533;rer #65533; son recueil la consistance d'une aventure litt#65533;raire : celle d'un #65533;crivain narrant sa courte vie et sa mort. Dans une #65533;Notice sur Champavert#65533;, P#65533;trus Borel, mystifiant le lecteur, annonce son suicide et affirme que Champavert et lui ne font qu'un, puis il en trace le portrait et donne quelques extraits des Rhapsodies. Les sept contes traitent un m#65533;me motif : l'amour tromp#65533;, avec pour objet une femme souvent contrainte ou viol#65533;e. Chaque titre d#65533;signe un h#65533;ros possible, d#65533;fini par une qualit#65533; ou une fonction. L'immoralit#65533; (le titre g#65533;n#65533;ral s'oppose aux Contes moraux de Marmontel) r#65533;side d'abord dans le fait que le mari ou l'amant tromp#65533;s sont le plus souvent des victimes et que le coupable n'est que rarement puni.

Champavert: Contes Immoraux (French Edition)

Short Stories & Anthologies

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

'Borel was the sun,' said Théophile Gautier, 'who could resist him?' Indeed, who? A lycanthrope, necrophile, absurd revolutionary, Paris dandy with a scented beard, flamboyant sufferer: a man with no grave and no memorial. His once celebrated red mouth opened briefly 'like an exotic flower' to complain of injustice and bourgeois vulgarity; of his frustration in love and reputation; of poverty and blighted fate. Then he withered in the minor officialdom of Algeria, where he died because he would not wear a hat, leaving a haunted house and a doubtful name. 'And now,' says his only biographer Dame Enid Starkie, 'he is quite forgotten.' Rhapsodies 1831 includes all the poems Borel wrote when he was twenty and twenty-one. The poems, he said, are 'the slag from my crucible': 'the poetry that boils in my heart has slung its dross.' It is a fabulous, fiery, black-clouded dross: captains and cutlasses, castles, maidens, daggers, danger; calls to arms, imagined loves, plaints and howls of injustice.

Rhapsodies 1831

Gänzl, Kurt

Poetry

Carcanet Classics

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