![]() What dreams they are indeed! Some have seen in this story an early mention of vampirism, which I'll have to give more thought to over the next few days as I give it another read. The first story, "Smarra," takes the reader into the realm of dreams within dreams within dreams, and Moreau's Jupiter et Sémélé on the cover is beyond appropriate. Rereading, and then on the "more later" stack it goes.įirst impressions: oh my god. two short novels, finely translated by Judith Landry, from Nodier's prime, sleek and flowing and highly unsafe." John Clute ![]() Smarra is an altogether more brutal story, extravagantly supernatural, with a stong sexual undercurrent." It is a touching story, as well as being extremely imaginative, and the Scottish background is finely evoked. Trilby is set in the Western highlands of Scotland. "Nodier's contes are dense, rich, varied in their settings and imbued with supernaturalism. The best of these half fairy and half fantasy tales is Trilby, or the imp of Argyll (1822), which is set in Scotland. Nodier also carried forward the French tradition of literary fairy tales, which he enriched with the fantastic extravagance of the romantics. In France he was one of the first populariser of the literary vampire story: Smarra, or the Demons of the Night(1821) is the most notable and horrific of his stories. ![]() Charles Nodier (1780-1844) was one of the key figures of the French Romantic movement. ![]()
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