Dedalus Book of the Occult: A Dark Muse - Softcover

Lachman, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909232440 ISBN 13: 9781909232440

Verlag: Dedalus Ltd, 2015

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Críticas:

From the Enlightenment to Modernism, ideas of the occult have shadowed literary culture, and Lachman's generous primer introduces the main exponents of diverse traditions alongside their more respectable contemporaries. --SB Kelly in Scotland on Sunday. It's a sure thing that anyone with a taste for literary esoterica and magical history will learn something from A Dark Muse. It's a cavernous grotto full of dark glittering jewels, but one haunted by the shades of so many intriguing characters that keeping to the true path is difficult, and you lose your way forever. Verdict - Fine encyclopaedia of occult lives and thought. 9/10. --Mark Pilkington in Fortean Times

This is a survey of 'adventurous souls' whose output was the reverse: 'often crazy, sometimes hilarious and, on occasion, clearly insane'. Lachman's gallery of occultists ranges from the hypnotist Mesmer (1734-1815), whose salon had 'an orgy-like atmosphere', through Goethe and Balzac, to Algernon Blackwood, and Aleister Crowley - aka the Great Beast 666. --Chris Hirst in The Independent

From the Enlightenment to Modernism, ideas of the occult have shadowed literary culture, and Lachman's generous primer introduces the main exponents of diverse traditions alongside their more respectable contemporaries. --SB Kelly in Scotland on Sunday.

Reseña del editor:

'Lachman's highly enjoyable survey makes lots of good points and all the right connections.' Suzi Feay in The Independent on Sunday

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• Verlag: Dedalus Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1909232440
• ISBN 13: 9781909232440
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 378