Par ceux ui s'opposent lui Un jour un marchand vient lui proposer deux sabres portant une inscription ue nul ne peut dchiffrer Un vieillard parvient finalement Vathek accueil databnffr Vathek conte arabe prcd de Beckford ou le Dmon des fables par G Jean Aubry Paris les Exemplaires Gr in XXXVI p Ac XcR Gr in XXXVI p Ac XcR Vathek conte arabe Vathek neuvime calife de la race des Abbassides tait fils de Motassem et petit−fils d' Haroum Al−Rachid Il monta sur le trne la fleur de son ge Les grandes ualits u' il possdait dj faisaient esprer ses peuples ue son rgne serait long et heureux Sa figure tait agrable et majestueuse ; mais Vathek Conte arabe William Beckford Babelio Vathek n'chappe pas la rgle et propose un environnement plutt effrayant alors ue l'auteur nous emmne d'abord dans l'ge d'or de l'Orient chez un sultan ui jouit de tous les plaisirs de la vie on se retrouve confront ensuite un terrifiant prince rgn
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Vathek Epub ì ↠ PDF EPUB kdglasscouk vathek book, Vathek ePUBVathek William Beckford Edited with an introduction by Roger Lonsdale London Oxford university press 19701349 187 PagesVathek alternatively titled Vathek an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek is a Gothic novel written by William Beckford It was composed in French beginning in 1782 and then translated into English by Reverend Samuel Henley in which form it was first published in 1786 without Beckford's name as An Arabian Tale From an Unpublished Manuscript claiming to be translated directly from Arabic تاریخ نخستین خوانش روز بیست و سوم ماه می سال 1978 میلادیواتک یا واثق؛ که با عنوان «واتک، حکایتی عربی یا داستان خلیفه واتک» نیز شناخته میشود، رما
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Vathek Epub ì ↠ PDF EPUB kdglasscouk vathek book, Vathek ePUBCaliph Vathek the ruler in fabulous Baghdad and its extended Empire the Middle East and AfricaGrandson of the illustrious Harun al Rashid but not his eual to say the least from the Arabian Nights fame this is fiction folks with only a very vague resemblance to a real man so don't bother to look him up on Wikipedia Being the 9th century the Caliph has absolute power also an evil eye deadly when angered as a lot of his poor victims discovered much too late Nobody looks at Vathek's fearsome eye when the Caliph is in a very bad mood for long
Vathek Epub ì ↠ PDF EPUB kdglasscouk vathek book, Vathek ePUBA preposterous proto orientalist fantasia full of afrits genies harems and evil plots Based very loosely on the life of the ninth century caliph al Wathik it is structured around a Faustian deal with the devil – it's a fast read and tonally uite a strange one Obviously Beckford was enamoured of the 1001 Nights but his story is also shot through with curious elements of his own and it all builds to an unusually dark ending Vathek is sometimes described as a Gothic novel and it does share some of those themes – a sense of th
Vathek Epub ì ↠ PDF EPUB kdglasscouk vathek book, Vathek ePUBThere is a story behind my purchasing this book I occasionally bid on book lots at the local auction house Recently I bid on a box of books which looked rather interesting I managed to transpose the numbers and ended up with a different box of books most of which I didn’t want However there were seven folio society book from the late 1950s and early 1960s which I have kept sending the others back to auction This was one of the folio society booksI knew little abo
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Vathek Epub ì ↠ PDF EPUB kdglasscouk vathek book, Vathek ePUBThis is an 18th century Gothic novel written by an English author but written in the French language It's about an Arabian sultan who makes a deal with the devil which almost never ends well That's an odd mix of tags but this is an odd story It reminds me a bit of Castle Otranto but violent Just not my cup of tea
Vathek Epub ì ↠ PDF EPUB kdglasscouk vathek book, Vathek ePUBI seem to have embarked on a re exploration of the gothic genre After finishing a re read of The Castle Of Otranto by Horace Walpole a couple of days back Last night I finished Vathek by William Beckford a novel which also stems from the trend for Orientalist fiction which played upon the exoticism of an imagined Arabic setting largely inspired by translations
Vathek Epub ì ↠ PDF EPUB kdglasscouk vathek book, Vathek ePUBPostmodernism has nothing on Vathek An absolutely bizarre Gothic tale rich in Orientalism and deviltry You may think that the modern era has corned the market in strange difficult texts but there is truly nothing new under the sun Vathek is stranger than strange
Vathek Epub ì ↠ PDF EPUB kdglasscouk vathek book, Vathek ePUBFirst published in 1786 William Beckford's Vathek was apparently written in the span of 3 days which while it is not an extremely long book is still incredible given its sheer imagination It makes me wonder what else Beckford could have accomplished if his greatest novel was put down on paper in a mere 3 days He was very talented as evidenced by his writing yet apparently was never truly able to harness his talents One may only wonder if he could have even surpassed the fame of writers like Poe had he written Vathek is a wild voluptuous sensual and decidedly dark and Gothic tale about a Middle Eastern Caliph who can have anything he wants any woman or object he de