Mar 6, 2022
Photographie de Andy Julia.
Photographie de Andy Julia.
But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.
- LeFanu, Carmilla
The act of interacting with text—that is to say, of reading—is that of inserting one's self into what is static and unchanging so that it might pump with fresh blood. Having read this introduction, I hope you will enter into 'Carmilla' thusly, using your fingertips and mouth and mind to locate the lacunae where LeFanu excised pieces of Veronika's account, the hallways haunted by the specters of truth and phantoms of passion. See if you cannot perceive what exists below: the erotic relationship of two high-strung and lonely young women. The shared metropolis of their dreaming. An aborted picnic in the ruins.
Carmen Maria Machado, from the introduction to Carmilla
Daaaaang. Leave it to Machado to turn the act of reading into a sexy vampiric lesbian metaphor in her introduction to a book about sexy lesbian vampires.
La cripta e l'incubo (Camillo Mastrocinque, 1964)
First Vampire Tale...
Carmilla was published in 1872 by Le Fanu which makes it one of the first novels about vampires, even before Dracula was published which means that Stoker may have based aspects of his novel on Carmilla. Carmilla embodies many aspects of classic gothic writing with Laura who lives an isolated life in a castle in the countryside with the nearest inhabited village twenty miles away and the theme of good versus evil. In this case, the evil is attempting to destroy the good but in the end the truth is found and Millarca/Carmilla is destroyed.
Le Fanu wrote the novel in a simple manner so that it is easy to understand and still able to read in today’s day and age. This aspect of the work aids to the mystery of what Carmilla is hiding and keeping a secret from Laura and her father. This manner also hints at a sense of desire or passion that Carmilla has for Laura. Le Fanu is able to bring up homosexuality without blatantly stating it.
“I was wakened by a sensation as if two needles ran into my breast very deep at the same moment, and I cried loudly. The lady started back, with her eyes fixed on me, and then slipped down upon the floor, and, as I thought, hid herself under the bed.”
Carmilla by Sheridan Lefanu is one of my favorite vampire stories, so when I had to pick a short story to draw my own interpretation of, I knew it had to be this one. As a child I was always terrified of monsters sneaking into my room to eat me. I kind of tried to capture that same feeling of dread here.
"Carmilla" è il la prima donna vampiro della letteratura gotica, personaggio principale della omonima novella scritta da Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu che precede il celebre romanzo Dracula di Bram Stoker di ben 26 anni . La novella ha ispirato questa deliziosa scultura disegnata , modellata e dipinta a mano in un unico esemplare. Carmilla è una bambina vampiro. Ha appena finito di fare merenda e gioca con il suo tenero coniglietto bianco. Pur nella ferocia della sua natura la piccola vampira mantiene la tenerezza e l'amabilità della tenere età alla quale è condannata per sempre assieme al piccolo peluche. Ogni dettaglio è curato nei particolari. La piccola scultura è firmata sul fondo durante la fase di modellazione. dopo la prima cottura che ha trasformato la creta morbida e malleabile in terracotta ,è stata effettuata la decorazione con colori sottocristallina atossici e con smalto per ceramica trasparente. La seconda cottura a 980° ha fissato i colori e lo smalto in modo permanente. Misura circa 8cm . La scultura è corredata da un certificato di autenticità e un sacchetto in stoffa cucito su misura con lo stemma di ClaylArt Oggetto unico da collezione, una piccola opera d'arte che impreziosirà la vostra casa. un regalo speciale per un collezionista o un amante del genere horror o gotico. Un dono unico per gli amanti della letteratura di vampiri e affini. altre sculture in un unico esemplare sono visionabili nella sezione del mio negozio bambole e sculture: https://www.etsy.com/it/shop/ClaylArt?ref=seller-platform-mcnav§ion_id=19934677
Carmilla by Takato Yamamoto.