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Psychology
“Digo que sou um homem, mas quem é o outro que se oculta em mim?”
O O irlandês Arthur Machen (1863 – 1947) ficou conhecido entre seus pares pelos contos de horror e pela capacidade de criar no leitor uma tensão quase insuportável durante sua leitura, e não é à toa que H. P. Lovecraft o incluiu em seu cânone da literatura weird. Contemporaneamente, autores como Stephen King, Clive Barker e Graham Joyce mencionaram THE GREAT GOD PAN entre suas influências (Stephen King o classificou como o melhor conto já escrito em língua inglesa).
Sua vida, no entanto, rivaliza com o teor de seus contos. Após a morte da primeira esposa, em 1899, Machen sofreu de um tipo de depressão alucinatória, na qual relatava encontrar-se constantemente com os personagens de seus contos, o que o fez renegar a literatura. Nas últimas décadas de vida, o autor passou por graves dificuldades financeiras.
A Desde 2011, traduzo e faço revisões como colaboradora freelancer para algumas editoras brasileiras. Já trabalhei como editora-assistente de aquisições num selo jovem e atualmente também me dedico ao estudo e publicação de traduções de contos weird e de terror enquanto preparo um projeto sobre autoras de terror vitorianas para o Doutorado em Literatura Comparada.
PSICOLOGIA foi publicado, pela primeira vez, em 1897, e republicado em várias coletâneas posteriores. O conto — muito influenciado pela escrita de Robert Louis Stevenson — deixa entrever em poucos parágrafos as qualidades que fariam de Machen um dos pioneiros da literatura weird — o terror nascido do “desconhecido” em meio a situações cotidianas —, e que posteriormente seriam objeto de estudo do alemão Sigmund Freud, em DAS UNHEIMLICHE.
PSICOLOGIA faz parte da coleção “Prosa na Veia”, dedicada a textos inéditos ou pouco conhecidos de terror e literatura weird. Os próximos lançamentos incluem Edith Nesbit e Virginia Woolf.
O O irlandês Arthur Machen (1863 – 1947) ficou conhecido entre seus pares pelos contos de horror e pela capacidade de criar no leitor uma tensão quase insuportável durante sua leitura, e não é à toa que H. P. Lovecraft o incluiu em seu cânone da literatura weird. Contemporaneamente, autores como Stephen King, Clive Barker e Graham Joyce mencionaram THE GREAT GOD PAN entre suas influências (Stephen King o classificou como o melhor conto já escrito em língua inglesa).
Sua vida, no entanto, rivaliza com o teor de seus contos. Após a morte da primeira esposa, em 1899, Machen sofreu de um tipo de depressão alucinatória, na qual relatava encontrar-se constantemente com os personagens de seus contos, o que o fez renegar a literatura. Nas últimas décadas de vida, o autor passou por graves dificuldades financeiras.
A Desde 2011, traduzo e faço revisões como colaboradora freelancer para algumas editoras brasileiras. Já trabalhei como editora-assistente de aquisições num selo jovem e atualmente também me dedico ao estudo e publicação de traduções de contos weird e de terror enquanto preparo um projeto sobre autoras de terror vitorianas para o Doutorado em Literatura Comparada.
PSICOLOGIA foi publicado, pela primeira vez, em 1897, e republicado em várias coletâneas posteriores. O conto — muito influenciado pela escrita de Robert Louis Stevenson — deixa entrever em poucos parágrafos as qualidades que fariam de Machen um dos pioneiros da literatura weird — o terror nascido do “desconhecido” em meio a situações cotidianas —, e que posteriormente seriam objeto de estudo do alemão Sigmund Freud, em DAS UNHEIMLICHE.
PSICOLOGIA faz parte da coleção “Prosa na Veia”, dedicada a textos inéditos ou pouco conhecidos de terror e literatura weird. Os próximos lançamentos incluem Edith Nesbit e Virginia Woolf.
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Arthur Machen
1,055 books983 followersArthur Machen was a leading Welsh author of the 1890s. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His long story The Great God Pan made him famous and controversial in his lifetime, but The Hill of Dreams is generally considered his masterpiece. He also is well known for his leading role in creating the legend of the Angels of Mons.
At the age of eleven, Machen boarded at Hereford Cathedral School, where he received an excellent classical education. Family poverty ruled out attendance at university, and Machen was sent to London, where he sat exams to attend medical school but failed to get in. Machen, however, showed literary promise, publishing in 1881 a long poem "Eleusinia" on the subject of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Returning to London, he lived in relative poverty, attempting to work as a journalist, as a publisher's clerk, and as a children's tutor while writing in the evening and going on long rambling walks across London.
In 1884 he published his second work, the pastiche The Anatomy of Tobacco, and secured work with the publisher and bookseller George Redway as a cataloguer and magazine editor. This led to further work as a translator from French, translating the Heptameron of Marguerite de Navarre, Le Moyen de Parvenir (Fantastic Tales) of Béroalde de Verville, and the Memoirs of Casanova. Machen's translations in a spirited English style became standard ones for many years.
Around 1890 Machen began to publish in literary magazines, writing stories influenced by the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, some of which used gothic or fantastic themes. This led to his first major success, The Great God Pan. It was published in 1894 by John Lane in the noted Keynotes Series, which was part of the growing aesthetic movement of the time. Machen's story was widely denounced for its sexual and horrific content and subsequently sold well, going into a second edition.
Machen next produced The Three Impostors, a novel composed of a number of interwoven tales, in 1895. The novel and the stories within it were eventually to be regarded as among Machen's best works. However, following the scandal surrounding Oscar Wilde later that year, Machen's association with works of decadent horror made it difficult for him to find a publisher for new works. Thus, though he would write some of his greatest works over the next few years, some were published much later. These included The Hill of Dreams, Hieroglyphics, A Fragment of Life, the story The White People, and the stories which make up Ornaments in Jade.
At the age of eleven, Machen boarded at Hereford Cathedral School, where he received an excellent classical education. Family poverty ruled out attendance at university, and Machen was sent to London, where he sat exams to attend medical school but failed to get in. Machen, however, showed literary promise, publishing in 1881 a long poem "Eleusinia" on the subject of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Returning to London, he lived in relative poverty, attempting to work as a journalist, as a publisher's clerk, and as a children's tutor while writing in the evening and going on long rambling walks across London.
In 1884 he published his second work, the pastiche The Anatomy of Tobacco, and secured work with the publisher and bookseller George Redway as a cataloguer and magazine editor. This led to further work as a translator from French, translating the Heptameron of Marguerite de Navarre, Le Moyen de Parvenir (Fantastic Tales) of Béroalde de Verville, and the Memoirs of Casanova. Machen's translations in a spirited English style became standard ones for many years.
Around 1890 Machen began to publish in literary magazines, writing stories influenced by the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, some of which used gothic or fantastic themes. This led to his first major success, The Great God Pan. It was published in 1894 by John Lane in the noted Keynotes Series, which was part of the growing aesthetic movement of the time. Machen's story was widely denounced for its sexual and horrific content and subsequently sold well, going into a second edition.
Machen next produced The Three Impostors, a novel composed of a number of interwoven tales, in 1895. The novel and the stories within it were eventually to be regarded as among Machen's best works. However, following the scandal surrounding Oscar Wilde later that year, Machen's association with works of decadent horror made it difficult for him to find a publisher for new works. Thus, though he would write some of his greatest works over the next few years, some were published much later. These included The Hill of Dreams, Hieroglyphics, A Fragment of Life, the story The White People, and the stories which make up Ornaments in Jade.
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November 16, 2022
Psychology is one of ten literary vignettes contained in Machen's Ornaments in Jade volume. These short narratives are considered by most as prose poems which begin and end in medias res where a character is introduced in the midst of a scene emphasizing magical instances, spiritual experiences, and fleeting moments where the veil between worlds becomes thin this being a major theme in most of Machen's work.
May 8, 2020
Mr. Dale with a pencil on his hand and a little scraps of paper and whatever comes in his mind he jotted that down. He observes the outside from his home, later a friend met him in his home named Mr. Jenyns and discuss about the fact of the psychology about a novelist...
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