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Soledad necesaria: las cartas entre H. P. Lovecraft y August Derleth

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950 pages, Paperback

Published October 2, 2023

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H.P. Lovecraft

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Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction.

Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.

Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe.
See also Howard Phillips Lovecraft.

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February 15, 2024
Café para muy cafeteros. Este volumen de 1000 páginas recopila casi toda la correspondencia que Lovecraft envió a Derleth y algunas de las respuestas de este último. Mucho tienen que interesarte las opiniones de Lovecraft sobre el mercado editorial de su época para enfrentarte al volumen, porque la enjundia real es muy valiosa pero escasísima; eso sí, toca todo lo que tiene que tocar: los mitos de Hastur (que acabarían siendo los de Cthulhu), sus opiniones políticas sobre los grandes movimientos de principios del siglo XX, sus viajes por Norteamérica... Como fuente primaria sobre ciertas cosas es la repera.

Particularmente interesante me parecen estas cartas para desmentir esa imagen de persona enfermiza y encerrada en su casa que tenía Lovecraft. Si bien no era la alegría de la huerta, viajaba bastante más que el ciudadano medio, conocía personalmente a casi todos los autores de su círculo (aunque nunca conoció a Derleth más que en foto), era un gran y tierno amante de los gatos, y le gustaba disfrutar como al que más. Es solo que, a ratos, la vida no le acompasaba el ritmo.
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